Comedy - Mass Media

Mass Media

Literature
Major forms
  • Novel
  • Poem
  • Drama
  • Short story
  • Novella
Genres
  • Comedy
  • Drama
  • Epic
  • Erotic
  • Nonsense
  • Lyric
  • Mythopoeia
  • Romance
  • Satire
  • Tragedy
  • Tragicomedy
Media
  • Performance (play)
  • Book
Techniques
  • Prose
  • Verse
History and lists
  • Outline of literature
  • Index of terms
  • History
  • Modern history
  • Books
  • Writers
  • Literary awards
  • Poetry awards
Discussion
  • Criticism
  • Theory
  • Magazines

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