### written language | fiction | legend:

Indian legend
* describes the horse's origins.
* has it that the giant sea stacks of Olympic Coast are the eyes of ancestors.
* refers to the loon as the bird with a broken back.
* tell of a great flood that had destroyed most of the earth
  - horned serpent

Novel
* are about human choices and the pattern of human lives through time
  - books
* are created by authors
  - writers
  - fictional work
  - located in bookstores
  - reads
  - stories
* is fiction

### written language | fiction | novel:

Graphic novel
* Many graphic novels are paperbound folios that require supportive shelving.
* are books in comic book format, many dealing with more adult subject matter
  - of comics
  - long-form comics that use elaborate artwork to tell a serious story
+ Comics: Art
  * There are many kinds of comics. Comic strips are short comics which are often found in newspapers. Comic books are thin comics magazines. Graphic novels are books of comics. In Japan, comics are very popular, and Japanese comics are popular around the world. The Japanese word for comics is manga, and people use this word for Japanese comics in English and other languages.

Historical novel
* Many historical novels show both soldiers and 'people at home' during wars.
* focus on teenage protagonists involved in significant historical eras.

### written language | fiction | novel:

Romance novel
* account for a large portion of the books purchased every year in the United States.
* are a billion-dollar industry
  - about relationships
  - one of the most popular genres in publishing
  - the most commonly read category of book
* celebrate love in a way no other genre does.
* contain much more explicit sex than mainstream fiction and other fiction genres.
* deal with the gritty areas of life.
* exercise the reader s sense of fantasy, granting imaginative projections to reality.
* have other types of covers as well.
* make up half of the mass trade paperback market.
* written by straight women are very different in the way they eroticize men's bodies.

### written language:

Journal
* Many journals have a presence on the internet.
* Some journals are the working notes of people who are attempting difficult work.
* are a less formal kind of writing than essays, stories or poetry
  - particular kind of periodical that are cited differently than popular magazines
  - an advanced form of freewriting
  - axles
  - electronic journals available on the Web
  - forums for storing finished products
  - in the humanities and social sciences
  - located in libraries
  - often the official or semiofficial publication of a group or society
  - one means to support practice in writing
  - periodicals
  - personal thoughts penned by young and old of both sexes
* are publications which are published on a regular basis and at least once a year
  - reference work
* are scholarly magazines published by and for professionals in specialized fields
  - publications containing reports of research conducted in a particular field
  - specialized, scholarly publications written by authorities in the field
* are, and always have been, published primarily for library usage.
* can exist without paper.
* contain information
  - much useful information
* have pages
  - templates
* include announcements
  - news
* provide information
  - topics
* publish observations.
* represent all major religions of the world.
* serve an important role as repositories of medical information
  - as a means of self-expression and practice in writing
* simultaneously serve as the medium of conversation and the repository for knowledge.
* usually contain articles written by people within a single academic field
  - offer great amounts of information on the state of a country and people