Polish word senses marked with topical category "Literary genres": list

Polish word senses marked with topical category "Literary genres"

Total 102 word senses

alba (Noun) alba (genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry)

anegdota (Noun) anecdote

anekdotka (Noun) Obsolete form of anegdotka.

arabeska (Noun) arabesque (literary genre typical of German Romanticism)

autobiografia (Noun) autobiography

bestiarium (Noun) bestiary (medieval treatise of animals)

bestiariusz (Noun) bestiary (medieval treatise of animals)

biografia (Noun) biography (a person's life story)

biografia (Noun) biography (a published form of such a life story)

bukolika (Noun) bucolic, eclogue, idyll, pastoral

chorał (Noun) chorale (poetic work with a solemn mood, referring in form to solemn liturgical music)

cyberpunk (Noun) cyberpunk (sci-fi subgenre)

cyberpunk (Noun) cyberpunk (cyberpunk character, a hacker punk, a high-tech low life)

czastuszka (Noun) chastushka (type of traditional Russian satirical or ironic folk poetry in quatrains)

diatryba (Noun) diatribe (speech or writing which bitterly denounces something)

drama (Noun) drama (composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue)

dramat (Noun) drama (composition, normally in prose, telling a story and intended to be represented by actors impersonating the characters and speaking the dialogue)

dreszczowiec (Noun) thriller (literary genre)

duma (Noun) dumka (individual composition in the genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine)

duma (Noun) dumka (literary work based on such a composition)

dumka (Noun) dumka (genre of instrumental folk music from Ukraine)

dytyramb (Noun) dithyramb (grandiloquent literary work celebrating someone or something)

ekloga (Noun) bucolic, eclogue, idyll, pastoral

elegia (Noun) elegy (mournful or plaintive poem or song)

elegia (Noun) elegy (composition of mournful character)

epigram (Noun) epigram (short, witty or pithy poem)

epigramat (Noun) epigram (short, witty or pithy poem)

epitafium (Noun) epitaph (inscription on a gravestone)

epitafium (Noun) epitaph (commemorative poem or other text)

esej (Noun) essay (written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject)

ewangelia (Noun) gospel (in Christian liturgy: a reading from the Gospels used during Mass)

fantastyka (Noun) speculative fiction (class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural or futuristic elements)

fantastyka naukowa (Noun) science fiction (genre of fiction)

fantasy (Noun) fantasy (genre)

felieton (Noun) opinion piece

filipika (Noun) philippic (any tirade or declamation full of bitter condemnation)

fotoreportaż (Noun) photo essay, photoreportage (reportage consisting of a series of photographic or film images and a short binding text)

fraszka (Noun) epigram (short lyrical piece, usually rhyming, with a variety of themes, often humorous or ironic (satirical))

gawęda (Noun) gawęda (Polish genre of literature, stylized as an oral tale, characterized by freedom of composition, rich in digressions, and written in language close to colloquial language, that presented a picture of Sarmatian szlachta (nobility, or gentry) manners and morals)

haiku (Noun) haiku (Japanese poem in three lines, the first and last consisting of five morae, and the second consisting of seven morae, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)

haiku (Noun) haiku (three-line poem in any language, with five syllables in the first and last lines and seven syllables in the second, usually with an emphasis on the season or a naturalistic theme)

harlekin (Noun) pulp romance (romance novel with little artistic value)

horror (Noun) horror (literary genre)

hymn (Noun) hymn

idylla (Noun) bucolic, eclogue, idyll, pastoral

komedia (Noun) comedy (literary genre)

komedia romantyczna (Noun) romantic comedy (love story in film)

komedia romantyczna (Noun) romantic comedy (love story in fiction)

komedia romantyczna (Noun) romantic comedy (instance of such a love story)

komentarz (Noun) commentary (series of comments or annotations; especially, a book of explanations or expositions on the whole or a part of some other work)

kryminał (Noun) whodunit, mystery novel

lament (Noun) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)

lamentacja (Noun) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)

legenda (Noun) legend (story of unknown origin describing plausible but extraordinary past events)

legenda (Noun) legend (story in which a kernel of truth is embellished to an unlikely degree)

legenda (Noun) legend (person with legend-like qualities, such as extraordinary accomplishment)

legenda (Noun) legend (inscription, motto, or title, especially one surrounding the field in a medal or coin, or placed upon a heraldic shield or beneath an engraving or illustration)

legenda (Noun) legend (instrumental piece of lyrical character, similar to a ballad)

limeryk (Noun) limerick

liryk (Noun) lyric poem, lyric

melika (Noun) melic poem (poem strictly about music)

melodramat (Noun) melodrama (literary genre)

moralitet (Noun) morality play

obrazek (Noun) slice of life (short literary piece depicting a small slice of reality)

opowiadanie (Noun) short story (work of fiction that is shorter than a novella)

opowieść (Noun) story, tale (series of events told)

pamflet (Noun) caricature, lampoon, parody, send-up, spoof, take-off

pamiętnik (Noun) diary, memoir

panegiryk (Noun) panegyric, eulogy

pastorałka (Noun) bucolic, eclogue, idyll, pastoral

pieśń (Noun) song (literary genre of lyric poetry, with origins linked to rituals and music (folk songs, medieval songs); a lyric work divided into stanzas, usually on serious topics)

podanie (Noun) legend, tale

powieść gotycka (Noun) Gothic fiction, Gothic horror (loose literary aesthetic of fear and haunting; the name refers to Gothic architecture of the European Middle Ages, which was characteristic of the settings of early Gothic novels)

realizm magiczny (Noun) magic realism

reportaż (Noun) reportage (literary genre at the intersection of journalism, non-fiction, and fiction)

romans (Noun) romance novel (story or novel dealing with idealized love, usually with little artistic value)

romans (Noun) Ancient Greek novel, romaunt

romans (Noun) romance (sentimental ballad)

romans rycerski (Noun) chivalric romance

romansidło (Noun) pulp romance (romance novel with little artistic value)

rota (Noun) rote (kind of guitar, the notes of which were produced by a small wheel or wheel-like arrangement; an instrument similar to the hurdy-gurdy)

rota (Noun) rota (infantry or cavalry unit in Poland in the 16th–17th c.)

rota (Noun) rota (row of soldiers in formation in Poland in the 18th c.)

rota (Noun) group of rescuers or firefighters consisting of two people

rota (Noun) tribunal of appeal functioning under the Roman Curia

runa (Noun) rune (Finnic or Scandinavian epic poem, or a division of one, especially a division of the Kalevala)

saga (Noun) saga (long epic story)

science fiction (Noun) science fiction (genre of fiction)

science fiction (Adjective) science fiction (genre of fiction)

shojo (Noun) Alternative form of shōjo

shonen (Noun) Alternative form of shōnen

shoujo (Noun) Alternative form of shōjo

shounen (Noun) Alternative form of shōnen

shōjo (Noun) shojo

shōnen (Noun) shonen

sielanka (Noun) bucolic, eclogue, idyll, pastoral

steampunk (Noun) steampunk (sci-fi subgenre)

summa (Noun) summa (medieval didactics literary genre written in Latin, born during the 12th century, and popularized in 13th century Europe)

thriller (Noun) thriller (literary genre)

tren (Noun) threnody (poem of lamentation or mourning for a dead person; a dirge; an elegy)

xenia (Noun) Xenien (biting epigram in the form of a two-line poem)

żal (Noun) żale (lyrical work in Old Polish literature expressing complaints about fate, pain due to some misfortune, or grief after someone's death)

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