People can analyze {cryptography} coded messages {cryptogram}|.
proposed version {draft, paper}.
company symbol or lettering {logo} {logotype}|.
Motions {previous question} can be current in parliaments.
excerpt anthology {analect}.
previously-published-works collection {anthology}|.
historical and/or rare documents {archive}|.
narrative history {chronicle}.
Notebooks {commonplace book} can contain photographs and other personal-interest items.
works collection {compendium}|.
works collection {compilation}.
Books {diary} can describe writer's days.
short abridgement {digest}.
Books {emblem book} can explain drawings.
elementary-student textbook or introductory book {primer, book}.
film text {screenplay}.
Documentaries {semidocumentary} can include fictional or imagined historical events.
Historical, literary, or religious works {source book} can be for reference.
three related works {trilogy}.
ideal-society description {utopia}.
Books {bestiary} can be about animals, illustrating moral principles.
Novels {bilddungsroman} {Erziehungsroman} can be about main-character maturation.
Novels {epistolary novel} can be letters.
Biographies {fictional biography} can be plausible life recreations.
Novels {Gothic novel} can use horror.
Novels {historical novel} can be about historical people and actual settings.
western drama {horse opera}.
Novels {kunstlerroman} can be about artist development.
Fiction {novel} can have more than 200 pages, with developed plot and fully described characters.
Short novels {novelette} can have 50 to 100 pages.
During late Middle Ages and Renaissance, people wrote down epic poems about heroes or lovers of European nations, far away lands, or fantasy lands in prose {novella} in the national language. Short novel can have 100 to 200 pages.
Novels {picaresque novel} can involve nice rogues who escape dull middle-class life in exciting episodes. This novel form started in 16th century Spain as chivalry burlesques.
sensational and commercial book {potboiler}.
Novels {psychological novel} can explore hero mental patterns, as in Dostoevski's works.
Novels {roman a clef} can be about contemporary figures but with names changed.
During and after Renaissance, prose stories {romance} with heroic and romantic themes had contemporary characters, who underwent character development.
long narrative {saga}.
future story {science fiction}.
annual fact book {almanac}|.
society-member reports {annals}.
map book {atlas, book}|.
People can write biographies {autobiography}| about selves.
Nonfiction can be life stories {biography}|.
address book {black book}.
prayer and hymn book {breviary}.
collection contents or index {catalog}.
library-collection description {conspectus}.
encyclopedia {cyclopedia}.
alphabetical names, telephone numbers, and/or addresses {directory, book}.
many alphabetical articles {encyclopedia}|.
Biographies {hagiography} can be about saints.
account book {ledger}.
event record {log, record}.
Nonfiction can recount {memoir}| writer's life in a historical period.
prayer and response book {missal}.
law or legal-code digest {pandect}.
drug, preparation, and dosage list {pharmacopoeia}.
synonym book {thesaurus}|.
long nonfiction book {tome}.
Nonfiction books or films {travelogue} can be about journeys.
Books {treatise} can contain complete subject knowledge.
advertising or marketing booklet {brochure}.
brochure {circular}.
handed out printed sheet {handbill}.
handbill or circular {leaflet}.
poster or public nameplate {placard}.
abridgement {condensation, work}.
shortened work {abridgment}|.
Scientific articles begin with summaries {abstract, article}|.
abstract or short summary {précis}|.
summary {summation}.
plot summary {synopsis}|.
beliefs {credo}.
beliefs {creed}.
group beliefs {doctrine}.
goal or principle declaration {manifesto}|.
conduct principle {precept}.
Others can require official information {document, prose} in fixed formats.
In legal disputes, parties can reach agreement {accord between parties}.
proposed-marriage announcement {bann}.
community-member agreement {compact}.
Signed agreements {concordat} can be between two or more groups.
sin admission {confession}.
formal announcement {declaration, document}.
title {deed}.
authority's order {directive}.
Declarations {disclaimer, prose} {hedge clause} can state facts and warnings and state that person is not responsible for what happens in situation.
proclamation {edict, proclamation}.
formal request {petition, document}.
Document introductions {preamble}| can state purposes.
college-course outline and schedule {syllabus}|.
speech or meeting record {transcript}|.
Articles {essay, writing} can state personal thoughts about subjects.
long essay {disquisition}.
Masters and doctoral degrees require research descriptions and conclusions {dissertation}.
passage explanation or long commentary {gloss}.
sermon {homily}|.
Books {monograph}| can be about one subject.
long formal speech {oration}.
praising poem or speech {paean}|.
formal eulogy {panegyric}.
long speech or formal-speech summary {peroration}.
sermon {preachment}.
critical appraisal {review}.
research description and conclusions {thesis, essay}.
propaganda pamphlet {tract}.
farewell {valediction}.
The same letter {chain letter} can go to a sequence of persons.
Letters {encyclical}| can be to all group members, such as pastoral letters from Pope.
letter {epistle}|.
Pages {letterhead} can have printed logos or addresses.
letter {missive}|.
public letter {open letter}.
end-of-letter note {postscript}| {P.S.}.
Diplomats and reporters can send messages {dispatch, message} to superiors or employers.
newspaper or journal {gazette}.
Publications {house organ} can be for employees or clients.
daily event record, newspaper, or scholarly periodical {journal}.
newspaper-article writing {journalism}.
Regularly published magazines {periodical} can contain original articles.
Newspapers {scandal sheet} can print stories of improper behavior by famous people.
sensational newspaper {tabloid}.
news {tidings}.
Many books {apocrypha} have same subjects as books of Old and New Testaments, but bible compilers did not accept them.
blessing {beatitude}|.
Priests can pray that God will protect and bless congregation {benediction}|.
spoken blessing {benison}.
Books {catechism}| can summarize Christian-sect principles in question-and-answer form.
prayer {invocation, prayer}|.
Prayers can have set phrases from leaders followed by set responses from congregation {litany}|.
religious-service ritual or standard part {liturgy}|.
Texts {offertory, text} can be for offering collection or for bread and wine sharing.
After leader speaks, audience can chant or sing a set phrase {responsory}.
Stories {allegory}| can illustrate moral choices or life styles.
short biographical narrative {anecdote}.
fictional story {canard, story}.
Medieval sermons {exemplum} can have parables.
Animal stories {fable}| can illustrate moral principles.
Medieval satires {fabliau} can be on middle-class life or clergy.
Children's stories {fairy tale} can use animals, magic, and non-existent places or places distant in time or space. Fairy tale often starts with the phrase, "Long ago and far away" Fairy tales seem realistic but add miracle and fantasy.
gender
Often in fairy tales, boys do heroic things, while girls wait for rescue or support boy heroes.
speculation
Perhaps, updated fairy tales can use the phrase "Right now, right here." Updated fairy tales can use magician tricks, quickness, and distraction. For example, invisibility uses dark clothes, has quiet movements, has no smell, and uses tricks to distract or hide. Updated fairy tales can use equal activity levels for boys and girls.
very short story {flash fiction}.
In a setting, a character tells a tale, or a storyteller tells stories {frame tale}. Frame tales include 1001 Nights and Canterbury Tales.
ancient god, hero, and event story {myth}.
story {narrative, writing}.
Stories {parable}| can illustrate morals.
Long anecdotes {shaggy-dog story} can end absurdly or anticlimactically.
Narratives {short story} can have less than 50 pages or less than 15,000 words.
Stories {tale} can emphasize plot.
Stories {tall tale} can have exaggerated events.
sketched story {vignette}.
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