Literature

A classic is a book accepted as being exemplary or noteworthy, for example through an imprimatur such as being listed in a list of great books, or through a reader's personal opinion.

English study is an academic discipline that includes the study of literatures written in the English language (including literatures from the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, India, Pakistan, South Africa, and the Middle East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, and stylistics), and English sociolinguistics (including discourse analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history of the English language, English language learning and teaching, and the study of World Englishes).

The nation of Georgia (Georgian: საქართველო sakartvelo) was first unified as a kingdom under the Bagrationi dynasty by the King Bagrat III of Georgia in the 9th to 10th century, arising from a number of predecessor states of ancient kingdoms of Colchis and Iberia.

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler.

A cell phone novel, or mobile phone novel (Japanese: 携帯小説 Hepburn: keitai shousetsu, Chinese: 手機小說; pinyin: shŏujī xiǎoshuō), is a literary work originally written on a cellular phone via text messaging.

A literary language is a register or dialect of a language that is used in literary writing.

A sequel is a narrative, documental, or other work of literature, film, theatre, television, music, or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work.

Paraliterature comprises written works dismissed as not literary.

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio.

In literature, a serial is a printed format by which a single larger work, often a work of narrative fiction, is published in sequential installments.

An epistle (/ᵻˈpɪsəl/; Greek ἐπιστολή, epistolē, "letter") is a writing directed or sent to a person or group of people, usually an elegant and formal didactic letter.

An anecdote is a brief, revealing account of an individual person or an incident.

A dedication is the expression of friendly connection or thanks by the author towards another person.

A soliloquy (from Latin solo "to oneself" + loquor "I talk") is a device often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections.

Literary science (German: Literaturwissenschaft) is an umbrella term, used in many European countries, for all kinds of scientific study pertinent to literature.

In literature, an epigraph is a phrase, quotation, or poem that is set at the beginning of a document or component.

Scientific literature comprises scholarly publications that report original empirical and theoretical work in the natural and social sciences, and within an academic field, often abbreviated as the literature.

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to literature: Literature – prose, written or oral, including fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry.

An afterword is a literary device that is often found at the end of a piece of literature.

A miscellany is a collection of various pieces of writing by different authors.

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another.

The Western canon is the body of books, music, and art that scholars generally accept as the most important and influential in shaping Western culture.

This is a list of encyclopedias as well as encyclopedic and biographical dictionaries published on the subject of literature in any language.

A foreword is a (usually short) piece of writing sometimes placed at the beginning of a book or other piece of literature.

A nonsense word, unlike a sememe, may have no definition.

Postcolonial literature is the literature of countries that were colonised by (mainly) European countries and which exists on all continents, but Antarctica.