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when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style.
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Derivation literature


a literary style.
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Derivation literature


literary criticism.

Examples of literary

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A graceful and literary writer, Clemens is also a keen observer of his hometown.
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The Southern Festival is a free literary festival in the best sense of the word.
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Infinite Jest cemented Wallace's reputation as a major American literary figure.
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These books fall into the curious netherworld of extra-academic literary theory.
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Today, a new Salinger publication or interview would spark a literary firestorm.
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Now scholars are wondering what other literary treasures could be hidden within.
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For these children, almost everything in our literary heritage is a closed book.
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From a literary perspective being as overpowered as he is becomes uninteresting.
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Nepal's literary scene is smaller and less heralded than India's and Pakistan's.
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  • Of or relating to or characteristic of literature; "literary criticism"
  • Knowledgeable about literature; "a literary style"
  • Appropriate to literature rather than everyday speech or writing; "when trying to impress someone she spoke in an affected literary style"
  • Literature (from Latin littera; letter), is the art of written works. Literally translated, the word literature means "acquaintance with letters" (as in the "arts and letters"). The two most basic written literary categories include fiction and nonfiction.
  • Language is used mainly in literature and imaginative writing, for example aflame, halcyon.
  • "Dialogo sulle lingue"; five comedies: "Mandragola"; "Clizia"; a comedy in prose; "The Andria" of Terence, a translation; a comedy in verse; "I Decennati" (a metrical history of the years 1495-1504); "Dell' Asino d'oro", writings on moral subjects; "La serenata"; "Canti Carnas cialesehi"; a ...
  • A category term for writers, directors, and some producers.
  • Criticism is the practice of interpreting and writing about literature as the latter, in turn, strives to make sense of the world.
  • The adjective referring to Literature.