Comedy vs Literature - What's the difference?
comedy | literature |
archaic Greece. a choric song of celebration or revel
ancient Greece. a light, amusing play with a happy ending
medieval Europe.'' a narrative poem with an agreeable ending (e.g., ''The Divine Comedy )
(drama) A dramatic work that is light and humorous or satirical in tone
(drama) The genre of such works
entertainment composed of jokes, satire, or humorous performance
the art of composing comedy
a humorous event
The body of all written works.
The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group or culture.
All the papers, treatises etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
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Written fiction of a high standard.
As nouns the difference between comedy and literature
is that comedy is archaic greece a choric song of celebration or revel while literature is the body of all written works.comedy
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Alternative forms
* comedie * (archaic) * (archaic)Noun
- Why would you be watching comedy when there are kids starving right now?
Antonyms
* drama * tragedyDerived terms
* comedic * comedically * comedy of errors * situation comedy, sitcom * comic * comedianliterature
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(wikipedia literature) (Literature) (Literature) (Literature)Alternative forms
* literatuer (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature , because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
