literary work

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literary work - imaginative or creative writing literary compositionpiece 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 messagebelles lettres, belles-lettres - creative writing valued for esthetic contentdialog, 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 factfictionalisation, fictionalization - a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fictionhagiology - literature narrating the lives (and legends) of the saintslucubration - a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitationpastoral - a literary work idealizing the rural life (especially the life of shepherds)poem, verse form - a composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical linespotboiler - 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