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These should be the most basic topics in the field--topics about which we'd like to have articles soon. Please see the most basic encyclopedia article topics for general instructions on constructing this list, and consult complete list of encyclopedia topics.
- literature
- History of Literature
- [history of the book] may not be the right title book
- Western canon
- [the teaching of writing]
- poetic formalism
- villanelle
- sonnet
- blank verse
- free verse
- epic
- prose formalism
- allegory
- anecdote
- point of view
- the novel
- short story
- journalism
- the essay
- Basic Procedural Knowledge
- how to read a poem
- how to read an essay
- how to read prose
- how to write a story
- how to write a poem
- effective reasoning in argument writing
- Techniques, Conceits and Genre (see talk for some ideas on literary genre)
- False document
- Frame tale