literature

Line of verse with eight syllables

Renewal, revival.

Written works intended to give facts, or true accounts of real things and events. Often used attributively.

To be dead; to lie in the grave.

The accidental, erroneous act of repeating a word, phrase or combination of letters by a scribe or copyist.

To write in collaboration with another person

A scholarly, literary, or cultured woman.

A dreary bog or marsh.

The humanistic study of historical linguistics.

A drama or similar work, in which the main character is brought to ruin or otherwise suffers the extreme consequences of some tragic flaw or weakness of character.

A play or a musical product which has a pastoral subject.

A form of lyric poem used by troubadours in Provençal in which two voices present different sides of an argument, in alternate stanzas, lines, or groups of lines with identical structure.

Any absurd medley.

(archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.

To repeat aloud (some passage, poem or other text previously memorized, or in front of one's eyes), often before an audience.

The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement

To write one's dissertation.

A folktale featuring fairies or similar fantasy characters.

A short, farcical, often bawdy tale of a genre written in the North of France in the 12th, 13th and 14th centuries.

The detachable paper cover of a book; used to protect the binding, and to provide blurb.