Entertainment / Music / Vamp: Short passage with simple rhythm and harmony that introduces a soloist in a jazz performance.
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Entertainment / Literature / Literal: A literal passage, story, or text is one intended only (or primarily) as a factual account of a real historical event rather than a metaphorical expression, an allegorical expression of a larger symbo MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Spoof: A comic piece of film or literature that ostensibly presents itself as a 'genre' piece, but actually pokes fun at the clich???©s or conventions of the genre through imitative satire. Examples from th MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Anagram: (Greekwriting back or anew): When the letters or syllables in a name, word or phrase are shuffled together or jumbled to form a new word. For instance, in Tanith Lee's short story, 'Bite-Me-Not, or Fl MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Fantasy Novel: Any novel that is removed from reality--especially those novels set in nonexistent worlds, such as an elvish kingdom, on the moon, in Pellucidar (the hollow center of the earth), or in alternative ver MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Fantasy Literature: Any literature that is removed from reality--especially poems, books, or short narratives set in nonexistent worlds, such as an elvish kingdom, on the moon, in Pellucidar (the hollow center of the ear MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Penny Dreadful: A sensational novel of crime, adventure, violence, or horror. The term is an English archaism referring to cheaply printed books bound in paper at only a few pennies' cost. English schoolboys also cal MORE