literary work

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literary work - imaginative or creative writing       literary composition piece of writing, written material, writing - the work of a writer; anything expressed in letters of the alphabet (especially when considered from the point of view of style and effect); "the writing in her novels is excellent"; "that editorial was a fine piece of writing" acrostic - verse in which certain letters such as the first in each line form a word or message belles lettres, belles-lettres - creative writing valued for esthetic content dialog, dialogue - a literary composition in the form of a conversation between two people; "he has read Plato's Dialogues in the original Greek" fiction - a literary work based on the imagination and not necessarily on fact fictionalisation, fictionalization - a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction hagiology - literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saints lucubration - a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation pastoral - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds) poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines potboiler - a literary composition of poor quality that was written quickly to make money (to boil the pot) tushery - writing of poor quality; characterized by affected choice of archaic words