literary arts
Poetry and prose
Literary arts are creative works made primarily from language—poetry, fiction, drama, essays, and other forms where words serve artistic rather than purely informational purposes.
The term encompasses both the practice of writing such works and the study of them.
She pursued the literary arts throughout college.
Distinguished from visual or performing arts, though drama bridges categories.
- written wordLanguage in visible form
- bookBound written work
- poetryMetrical literary composition
- metaphorImplied identity comparison
- storyAccount of events
drama · imagery · allegory · fable · characterization · symbolism · structuralism · narrative voice · rhetoric · irony · Harlem Renaissance · Beat Generation · satire · stream of consciousness · Romanticism · epic · foreshadowing · hermeneutics
- artsartist, creativity, expression, songs, painting
- arts worldartists, galleries, museums, studios, painters
- culturemusic taste, beliefs, food preferences, custom, festivals
- art worldartist, painter, painting, paintings, sculpture
- Spanish Cultureflamenco, paella, Goya, tapas, bullfighting
- arts organizationsarts council, cultural centers, art guild, arts funding, art collective
literary artsvisual arts
Sight-based creative disciplines
performing arts · fine arts · painting · graphic arts · sculpture
literary artsperforming arts
Live creative presentation disciplines
live performance · theater · stand-up comedy · circus arts · improvisation
literary artstechnical writing
Clear explanation of complexity
scientific writing · journalism · legal writing · business writing · academic writing
letter, artistic, literature, artisan, literary, literate, literatures, belles-lettres