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Glossário: Literary genres
A

a thriller

(noun) a novel, play, or film with an exciting plot, typically involving crime or espionage.


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fairy tale

Fairy Tales usually have magical elements with characters that could be fairies, giants, or elves. Many times magical deeds are performed. Cinderella is an example of a fairy tale.

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G

genre

A genre is a group or collection of books with a similar theme or style.
H

Horror

(...) the horror genre is characterized by the attempt to make the [reader] (...) experience dread, fear, terror, disgust or horror. Its plots often involve the intrusion of an evil force, event, or personage, sometimes of supernatural origin, into the mundane world.

in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horror_film, visualized in 1 March 2006
N

novel

  • (noun)a fictitious prose narrative of book length.

ORIGIN from Italian novella storia new story.

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