Genres
- comedy
- light and humorous drama with a happy ending
- pointillism
- a genre of painting characterized by the application of paint in dots and small strokes; developed by Georges Seurat and his followers in late 19th century France
- tragicomedy
- a dramatic composition involving elements of both tragedy and comedy usually with the tragic predominating
- musical drama
- opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action
- short story
- a prose narrative shorter than a novel
- fado
- a sad Portuguese folksong
- macumba
- popular dance music of Brazil; derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult
- newsreel
- a short film and commentary about current events
- piano sonata
- a sonata for piano
- dark comedy
- a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements
- myth
- a traditional story accepted as history; serves to explain the world view of a people
- euphuism
- an elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology
- epos
- a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme
- final cut
- the final edited version of a movie as approved by the director and producer
- concerto grosso
- a baroque composition for orchestra and a group of solo instruments
- trad
- traditional jazz as revived in the 1950s
- animated cartoon
- a film made by photographing a series of cartoon drawings to give the illusion of movement when projected in rapid sequence
- bop
- an early form of modern jazz (originating around 1940)
- interior monologue
- a literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue
- sonata
- a musical composition of 3 or 4 movements of contrasting forms
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