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v t e Lists of music genres and styles
General lists	Music genres and styles A–F G–M N–R S–Z Microgenres Uses accordion
Genres	Classical and art music traditions Electronic Ambient Breakbeat EDM Hardstyle House Industrial Techno Trance Jazz Popular Country Hip hop Reggae Rock Heavy metal Punk rock Hardcore punk
Themes and movements	Historically informed performance Martial Progressive Psychedelic
Cultural and regional genres	Caribbean Folk traditions American Central North South Asian Caribbean European Middle Eastern and North African Oceanic and Australian Sub-Saharan African Gamelan

v t e Dance
Index Outline List of dances List of dancers
Participation	Solo Partner close embrace closed position open position slow dance circle contra line round square
Social	Ceremonial Competitive Concert Ecstatic Erotic Go go dance Grinding Hoochie coochie Lap dance Neo-Burlesque Pole dance Striptease Table dance Twerking Folk Novelty and fad Sacred Street War
Styles	Acro Ballet Ballroom formation waltz Belly Boogaloo Breaking Contemporary Country–western Flamenco Hip-hop Historical Jazz Latin Lyrical Modern Polka Postmodern Swing Tap Two-step
Technique	Ballet Choreography Connection Dance theory Graham Lead and follow Moves glossary Musicality Pointe Pole Sequence Spotting Turnout Turns
Regional (national dances)	Africa Albania Arab Armenia Assyrian Australia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Bulgaria Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia Cameroon Canada China Croatia Cuba Denmark Europe Faroe Islands Georgia Greece Hungary India Indonesia Iran Ireland Israel Italy Japan Kiribati Korea Kurdish Malaysia Mexico Middle East Nepal Netherlands Nicaragua Peru Philippines Poland Pontic Greek Romani Russia Serbia Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Turkey Ukraine United States African-American Uzbekistan Venezuela Vietnam Wallis and Futuna Zimbabwe
Related	Dance and disability Dance and health Dance awards Dance costume Dance etiquette Dance notation Dance in film Dance in mythology and religion Dance occupations Dance on television Dance research Dance science Dance technology Dance troupe Dancing mania History of dance Women in dance

v t e Photography
Equipment	Camera light-field digital field instant pinhole press rangefinder SLR still TLR toy view Darkroom enlarger safelight Drone Film base format holder stock available films discontinued films Filter Flash beauty dish cucoloris gobo hot shoe lens hood monolight reflector snoot softbox Lens long-focus prime zoom wide-angle fisheye swivel telephoto Manufacturers Monopod Movie projector Slide projector Tripod head Zone plate
Terminology	35 mm equivalent focal length Angle of view Aperture Backscatter Black-and-white Chromatic aberration Circle of confusion Color balance Color temperature Depth of field Depth of focus Exposure Exposure compensation Exposure value Zebra patterning F-number Film format large medium Film speed Focal length Guide number Hyperfocal distance Lens flare Metering mode Perspective distortion Photograph Photographic printing Albumen Photographic processes Reciprocity Red-eye effect Science of photography Shutter speed Sync Zone System
Genres	Abstract Aerial Aircraft Architectural Astrophotography Banquet Candid Conceptual Conservation Cloudscape Documentary Eclipse Ethnographic Erotic Fashion Fine-art Fire Forensic Glamour High-speed Landscape Nature Neues Sehen Nude Photojournalism Pictorialism Pornography Portrait Post-mortem Ruins Selfie Social documentary Sports Still life Stock Straight photography Street Toy camera Underwater Vernacular Wedding Wildlife
Techniques	Afocal Bokeh Brenizer Burst mode Contre-jour Cyanotype ETTR Fill flash Fireworks Harris shutter High-speed Holography Infrared Intentional camera movement Kirlian Kite aerial Lo-fi photography Long-exposure Luminogram Macro Mordançage Multiple exposure Multi-exposure HDR capture Night Panning Panoramic Photogram Print toning Pigeon photography Redscale Rephotography Rollout Scanography Schlieren photography Sabattier effect Slow motion Stereoscopy Stopping down Strip Slit-scan Sun printing Tilt–shift Miniature faking Time-lapse Ultraviolet Vignetting Xerography Zoom burst
Composition	Diagonal method Framing Headroom Lead room Rule of thirds Simplicity Golden triangle (composition)
History	Timeline of photography technology Ambrotype Analog photography Autochrome Lumière Box camera Calotype Camera obscura Daguerreotype Dufaycolor Heliography Painted photography backdrops Photography and the law Glass plate Tintype Visual arts
Regional	Albania Bangladesh Canada China Denmark Greece India Japan Korea Luxembourg Norway Philippines Serbia Slovenia Sudan Taiwan Turkey Ukraine United States Uzbekistan Vietnam
Digital photography	Digital camera D-SLR comparison MILC camera back Digiscoping Comparison of digital and film photography Film scanner Image sensor CMOS APS CCD Three-CCD camera Foveon X3 sensor Image sharing Pixel
Color photography	Color Print film Chromogenic print Reversal film Color management color space primary color CMYK color model RGB color model
Photographic processing	Bleach bypass C-41 process Collodion process Cross processing Developer Digital image processing Dye coupler E-6 process Fixer Gelatin silver process Gum printing Instant film K-14 process Print permanence Push processing Stop bath
Lists	Most expensive photographs Museums devoted to one photographer Photographs considered the most important Photographers Norwegian Polish street women
Related	Conservation and restoration of photographs film photographic plates Lomography Polaroid art Stereoscopy
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v t e Narrative
Character	Antagonist Archenemy Character arc Character flaw Characterization Confidant Deuteragonist False protagonist Focal character Foil Gothic double Hamartia Hero Anti Byronic Tragic Narrator Protagonist Stock character Straight man Supporting character Title character Tritagonist Villain
Plot	Ab ovo Action Backstory Origin story Chekhov's gun Cliché Cliffhanger Conflict Deus ex machina Dialogue Dramatic structure Eucatastrophe Foreshadowing Flashback Flashforward Frame story In medias res Kishōtenketsu MacGuffin Pace Plot device Plot twist Poetic justice Red herring Reveal Self-insertion Shaggy dog story Stereotype Story arc Story within a story Subplot Suspense Trope
Setting	Alternate history Backstory Crossover Dreamworld Dystopia Fictional location city country universe parallel Utopia Worldbuilding
Theme	Irony Leitmotif Metaphor Moral Moral development Motif Deal with the Devil Conflict between good and evil Self-fulfilling prophecy Time travel
Style	Allegory Bathos Comic relief Diction Figure of speech Imagery Mode Mood Narration Narrative techniques Hook Show, don't tell Stylistic device Suspension of disbelief Symbolism Tone
Structure	Act Act structure Three-act structure Freytag's Pyramid Exposition/Protasis Rising action/Epitasis Climax/Peripeteia Falling action/Catastasis Denouement/Catastrophe Linear narrative Nonlinear narrative films television series Premise Types of fiction with multiple endings
Form	Drama Fabliau Flash fiction Folklore Fable Fairy tale Legend Myth Tall tale Gamebook Narrative art Narrative poetry Epic poetry Novel Novella Parable Short story Vignette
Genre (List)	Autobiography Biography Fiction Action fiction Adventure Comic Crime Docu Epistolary Ergodic Erotic Historical Mystery Nautical Paranoid Philosophical Picaresque Political Pop culture Psychological Religious Rogue Romance Chivalric Prose Saga Satire Speculative fiction Fantasy Gothic Southern Horror Magic realism Science Hard Utopian and dystopian Underwater Superhero Theological Thriller Urban Western Nonfiction Novel Creative
Narration	Diegesis First-person Second-person Third-person Third-person omniscient narrative Subjectivity Unreliable narrator Multiple narrators Stream of consciousness Stream of unconsciousness
Tense	Past Present Future
Related	Dominant narrative Fiction writing Continuity Canon Reboot Retcon Parallel novel Prequel / Sequel Genre List Literary science Literary theory Narrative identity Narrative paradigm Narrative therapy Narratology Metafiction Political narrative Rhetoric Glossary Screenwriting Storytelling Tellability Verisimilitude

v t e Literary composition
General topics	Characterization Description Exposition Fiction writing Literature Writer Writer's block
Techniques / devices	Linguistic contrast Literary contrast Cliché Idiom Trope
Methods	Writing process Prewriting Assemblage Cut-up technique Diegesis Mimesis Pastiche Plagiarism
Features	Writing style Writer's voice Grammatical mood Register Rhetorical modes Stylistics Tone
Forms	Creative nonfiction Essay Joke Novel Poetry Screenplay Short story
Beyond the arts	Articulation (sociological) Composition studies Technical writing

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v t e Visual arts
Architecture Art Cartoon Ceramics Computer art Craft Decorative arts Design Drawing Digital art Filmmaking Light art Painting Photography Printmaking Public art Rock art Sculpture Site-specific art Street art
List of artistic media

v t e Lists of poets
By language	Afrikaans Albanian Arabic Armenian Azerbaijani Assamese Awadhi Belarusian Bengali Bosnian Bulgarian Catalan Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch English French German Greek (Ancient) Gujarati Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Italian Japanese Kashmiri Konkani Kannada Korean Kurdish Latin Maithili Malayalam Maltese Manipuri Marathi Nepali Oriya Pashto Pennsylvania Dutch Persian Polish Portuguese Punjabi Rajasthani Romanian Russian Sanskrit Sindhi Slovak Slovenian Sorbian Spanish Swedish Syriac Tamil Telugu Turkic Ukrainian Urdu Uzbek Welsh Yiddish
By nationality or culture	Afghan American Argentine Australian Austrian Bangladeshi Bosniak Brazilian Breton Bulgarian Canadian Chicano Estonian Finnish Ghanaian Greek Indian Iraqi Irish Israeli Mexican Nepalese New Zealander Nicaraguan Nigerian Ottoman Pakistani Peruvian Romani Romanian Somali South African Swedish Swiss Syrian Turkish
By type	Anarchist Early-modern women (England, Wales, Great Britain) Feminist Lyric Modernist National Performance Romantic Speculative Surrealist War Women
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v t e Literary criticism
Literary theory	Archetypal criticism Biographical criticism Chicago school Cultural materialism Darwinian criticism Deconstruction Descriptive poetics Ecocriticism Feminist criticism Formalism Geocriticism Marxist criticism New Criticism New historicism Postcolonial criticism Postcritique Psychoanalytic criticism Reader-response criticism Russian formalism Semiotic criticism Sociological criticism Source criticism Thing theory
Theorists and critics	Plato Aristotle Horace Longinus Plotinus St. Augustine Boethius Aquinas Dante Boccaccio Christine de Pizan Bharata Muni Rajashekhara Valmiki Anandavardhana Cao Pi Lu Ji Liu Xie Wang Changling Lodovico Castelvetro Philip Sidney Jacopo Mazzoni Torquato Tasso Francis Bacon Henry Reynolds Thomas Hobbes Pierre Corneille John Dryden Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux John Locke John Dennis Alexander Pope Joseph Addison Giambattista Vico Edmund Burke David Hume Samuel Johnson Edward Young Gotthold Ephraim Lessing Joshua Reynolds Denis Diderot Immanuel Kant Mary Wollstonecraft William Blake Friedrich Schiller Friedrich Schlegel William Wordsworth Anne Louise Germaine de Staël Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wilhelm von Humboldt John Keats Arthur Schopenhauer Thomas Love Peacock Percy Bysshe Shelley Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Giacomo Leopardi Francesco De Sanctis Thomas Carlyle John Stuart Mill Ralph Waldo Emerson Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve James Russell Lowell Edgar Allan Poe Matthew Arnold Hippolyte Taine Charles Baudelaire Karl Marx Søren Kierkegaard Friedrich Nietzsche Walter Pater Émile Zola Anatole France Oscar Wilde Stéphane Mallarmé Leo Tolstoy Benedetto Croce Antonio Gramsci Umberto Eco A. C. Bradley Sigmund Freud Ferdinand de Saussure Claude Lévi-Strauss T. E. Hulme Walter Benjamin Viktor Shklovsky T. S. Eliot Irving Babbitt Carl Jung Leon Trotsky Boris Eikhenbaum Virginia Woolf I. A. Richards Mikhail Bakhtin Georges Bataille John Crowe Ransom R. P. Blackmur Jacques Lacan György Lukács Paul Valéry Kenneth Burke Ernst Cassirer W. K. Wimsatt and Monroe Beardsley Cleanth Brooks Jan Mukařovský Jean-Paul Sartre Simone de Beauvoir Ronald Crane Philip Wheelwright Theodor Adorno Roman Jakobson Northrop Frye Gaston Bachelard Ernst Gombrich Martin Heidegger E. D. Hirsch, Jr. Noam Chomsky Jacques Derrida Roland Barthes Michel Foucault Hans Robert Jauss Georges Poulet Raymond Williams Lionel Trilling Julia Kristeva Paul de Man Harold Bloom Chinua Achebe Stanley Fish Edward Said Elaine Showalter Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar Murray Krieger Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari René Girard Hélène Cixous Jonathan Culler Geoffrey Hartman Wolfgang Iser Hayden White Hans-Georg Gadamer Paul Ricoeur Peter Szondi M. H. Abrams J. Hillis Miller Clifford Geertz Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Tristan Tzara André Breton Mina Loy Yokomitsu Riichi Oswald de Andrade Hu Shih Octavio Paz

v t e Historical clothing
Clothing generally not worn today, except in historical settings
Body-length	Abolla Banyan Brunswick Court dress (Empire of Japan) Chiton Frock Frock coat Hanfu Justacorps Paenula Peplos Stola Toga Tunic Xout lao
Tops	Basque Bedgown Bodice Doublet Peascod belly Poet shirt Sbai Suea pat
Trousers	Braccae Breeches Sompot Chong Kben Culottes Harem Knickerbockers Pedal pushers Saragüells [ca]
Skirts	Hobble Poodle Safeguard Sompot Sinh Train
Dresses	Bliaut Close-bodied gown Debutante Gown Kirtle Mantua Polonaise Robe de cour Sack-back gown Sailor Tea gown Zaju chuishao fu
Outerwear	Capote Car coat Caraco Cardinal cloak Chamail Chlamys Cloak Kinsale cloak Dolman Doublet Duster Exomis Greatcoat Himation Houppelande Inverness cape Jerkin Kandys Mackinaw jacket Nadiri Norfolk jacket Overfrock Pañuelo Palla Pallium Pelisse Poncho Shadbelly Shawl Galway shawl Kullu Smock-frock Spencer Surcoat Surtout Ulster coat Visite Witzchoura
Underwear	Basque Bustle Chausses Chemise Codpiece Corselet Corset Waist cincher Dickey Garter Hoop skirt Crinoline Farthingale Pannier Hose Liberty bodice Loincloth Open drawers Pantalettes Petticoat Peignoir Pettipants Union suit Yếm
Headwear	Anthony Eden Apex Arakhchin Attifet Aviator Ba tầm Bergère Blessed hat Bonnet Capotain Caubeen Cavalier Coif Coonskin Cornette Dunce Fillet French hood Fontange Futou Gable hood Hennin Jeongjagwan Jewish Kausia Kokoshnik Llawt'u Malahai Matron's badge Miner's Mob Modius Monmouth Mooskappe Motoring hood Mounteere Nemes Nightcap Ochipok Pahlavi Petasos Phrygian Pileus Printer's Pudding Qeleshe Qing Salakot Snood Smoking Tainia Taranga Welsh Wig Wimple
Footwear	Buskins Calcei Caligae Carbatina Chinese styles Chopines Duckbills Episcopal sandals Hessian Lotus shoes Manchu platform shoes Pampooties Pattens Pigaches Poulaines Socci Tiger-head shoes Turnshoes
Accessories	Ascot tie Belt hook Cointoise Cravat (early) Hairpin Hatpin Jabot Lavallière Muff Oes Partlet Perfumed gloves Ruff Shoe buckle Visard
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