Polish word senses marked with topical category "Literary genres"
Parent categories: Fiction, Genres, Literature, Artistic works, Entertainment, Culture, Writing, Art, Society, Human behaviour, Language, Human, Communication
Subcategories: Manga genres, Romance fiction
Total 90 word senses
- alba (Noun) alba (genre of Old Occitan lyric poetry)
- 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)
- 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)
- dramat (Noun) drama (type of play)
- dramat (Noun) drama (film genre)
- dramat (Noun) calamity, drama, plight, tragedy (quality of intense or high emotion or situation of enormous gravity that heightens such emotions)
- 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 (commemorative poem or other text)
- esej (Noun) essay (written composition of moderate length, exploring a particular issue or subject)
- ewangelia (Noun) gospel (first section of the New Testament)
- 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)
- 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)
- kryminał (Noun) whodunit, mystery novel
- 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
- opowieść (Noun) story, tale (series of events told) [+ o (locative) = about what/whom]; story, tale (series of events told)
- opowieść (Noun) story, tale (written work) [+ o (locative) = about what/whom]; story, tale (written work)
- 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
- powiastka (Noun) short story
- 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) amour, love affair, romance, liaison
- 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) tribunal of appeal functioning under the Roman Curia
- saga (Noun) saga (Old Norse Icelandic prose)
- 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)
- thriller (Noun) thriller (literary genre)
- tren (Noun) dirge, lamentation (sorrowful work of poetry)
- 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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