Literature vs Essay - What's the difference?
literature | essay |
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.
A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.
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(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
An attempt.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 455:
(dated) To try.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
To move forth, as into battle.
As nouns the difference between literature and essay
is that literature is the body of all written works while essay is essay, usually on scientific, cultural or sociological subjects for publication in a newspaper or magazine.literature
English
(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
Meronyms
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* *essay
English
(wikipedia essay)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}
- This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.
Derived terms
* photo essayVerb
(en verb)- He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.