{ "api": "YAML JSON TOON Database", "version": "1.0.0", "format": "json", "category": { "id": 24, "slug": "literature", "name": "Literature", "description": "Literary movements, genres, narrative techniques, and major works across history.", "icon": "book", "created_at": 1783090350, "topic": { "overview": "Literature reference data names the tools writers use and the categories readers sort them into: the elements of drama, the techniques of narration, the devices of poetry, the genres of fiction, the movements that shaped literary periods and the awards that recognize writers. The vocabulary is mostly settled, but its use is interpretive: whether a passage is stream of consciousness or free indirect discourse, or a novel belongs to one genre or another, is a judgment supported by evidence in the text. Awards and movements also change: prize rules, categories and winners are updated every year.", "key_ideas": [ { "term": "Genre", "meaning": "A category of works sharing conventions of form, subject or tone. Genres overlap, and many works belong to more than one." }, { "term": "Point of view", "meaning": "The perspective from which a story is told: first person, third person limited or omniscient, and less common forms such as second person." }, { "term": "Literary device", "meaning": "A technique used to create an effect, such as metaphor, irony or foreshadowing." }, { "term": "Literary movement", "meaning": "A group of writers, usually in one period, sharing aims, themes and methods, such as Romanticism or Modernism." }, { "term": "Unreliable narrator", "meaning": "A narrator whose account the reader has reason to doubt, creating a gap between what is said and what is true." }, { "term": "Meter", "meaning": "The pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line of verse, such as iambic pentameter." }, { "term": "Canon", "meaning": "The set of works regarded as most important in a tradition. Its membership is debated and changes." } ], "pitfalls": [ "Treating a device name as an interpretation. Spotting a metaphor is not the same as explaining what it does in the text.", "Reading movement labels as hard boundaries; authors often belong to several or none.", "Quoting award results without the year. Prizes are awarded annually and their rules change.", "Presenting genre definitions as universal; they vary by critic, publisher and era." ], "agent_tips": [ "Quote the line or passage behind any claim that a device is in use, and say what effect it creates.", "Credit translated works carefully: awards for translated fiction often name the translator.", "For plot or character questions, avoid spoilers when the user has not asked for them." ], "start_with": [ "poetry-devices", "narrative-techniques" ] } }, "datasets": [ { "id": 1, "slug": "drama-elements", "title": "Elements of Drama", "description": "Core components of dramatic works.", "tags": "literature,drama,theater", "view_count": 0, "created_at": 1783090350, "entry_count": 14, "summary": "The elements that make up a dramatic work: plot, character, setting, dialogue, conflict, theme and stage directions, plus soliloquy, aside, monologue, the chorus, catharsis, the tragic flaw and the stages of dramatic structure." }, { "id": 2, "slug": "fiction-genres", "title": "Fiction Genres", "description": "Popular genres of fiction literature.", "tags": "literature,genres,fiction", "view_count": 0, "created_at": 1783090350, "entry_count": 14, "summary": "The main genres of fiction, from science fiction, fantasy, mystery and horror to romance and historical fiction, plus thrillers, dystopian fiction, magical realism, gothic fiction, crime and noir, adventure, literary fiction and young adult." }, { "id": 3, "slug": "literary-movements", "title": "Literary Movements and Their Characteristics", "description": "Major literary movements from Renaissance to Postmodernism: key characteristics, representative authors, and defining works that shaped each era.", "tags": "literature,literary-movements,romanticism,modernism,realism,postmodernism,renaissance,enlightenment", "view_count": 0, "created_at": 1783090350, "entry_count": 6, "summary": "Major literary movements from the Renaissance to postmodernism with their characteristics, key authors and historical context." }, { "id": 4, "slug": "major-literary-awards", "title": "Major Literary Awards", "description": "Prestigious international literary awards.", "tags": "literature,awards,reference", "view_count": 0, "created_at": 1783090350, "entry_count": 14, "summary": "Major literary awards with their region and what they are known for: the Nobel Prize in Literature, the Pulitzer Prize, the Booker Prize, the Prix Goncourt and the Hugo Award, plus the International Booker, National Book Awards, Nebula, Edgar, Newbery, Carnegie, Cervantes, Akutagawa and Miles Franklin prizes." }, { "id": 5, "slug": "narrative-techniques", "title": "Narrative Techniques and Literary Devices", "description": "Narrative techniques used in fiction: point of view, stream of consciousness, unreliable narrator, foreshadowing, framing devices, and dramatic irony.", "tags": "literature,narrative,point-of-view,stream-of-consciousness,unreliable-narrator,foreshadowing,irony", "view_count": 0, "created_at": 1783090350, "entry_count": 7, "summary": "Techniques of narration and literary devices: point of view, stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, foreshadowing, framing devices, dramatic irony and in medias res, each with a description and its types or characteristics." }, { "id": 6, "slug": "poetry-devices", "title": "Poetry Devices", "description": "Common literary devices used in poetry.", "tags": "literature,poetry,devices", "view_count": 0, "created_at": 1783090350, "entry_count": 21, "summary": "Sound and figurative devices used in verse: alliteration, assonance, metaphor, simile, personification, onomatopoeia and rhyme, with imagery, hyperbole, enjambment, meter, caesura, symbolism, oxymoron, anaphora, metonymy, synecdoche, apostrophe, consonance, refrain and the stanza." } ] }