Different Literary Genres, Their Most Important Parts

by Carson Cistulli - September 17, 2012

Voltaire: no stranger to the knocking of public boots.

Here are three literary genres, and the parts of each most vital to their success:

A Poem
The first line, probably.

A Novel
The first line, probably.

A Daily News Story About a Couple Using a Yankee Stadium Bathroom Stall to the End of a Spirited and Innings-Long Spell of Urgent Lovemaking
Every word, one realizes almost immediately.

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7 Responses to “Different Literary Genres, Their Most Important Parts”

1. Urban Shocker says:

   September 17, 2012 at 5:12 pm

   All this happened, more or less.
   

   

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2. Well-Beered Englishman says:

   September 17, 2012 at 5:57 pm

   I thought “Yankee panky” was excellent. Then I read the final paragraph.
   

   

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3. KCDaveInLA says:

   September 17, 2012 at 9:57 pm

   I wish Phil Rizzuto was still alive to do the play-by-play over the video.
   

   

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4. Mr. Observant says:

   September 18, 2012 at 9:17 am

   This is New Yankee Stadium – for god’s sake, they can’t afford to build an exclusive chamber for fornication? They have hand-rolled and delivered sushi at a baseball game but supporters of this well-heeled club need to celebrate their sexuality in a common privy? This, THIS is the legacy of Obamacare, clearly. I’m shaking my head ruefully. The could ask A-Rod to decorate this potential love room – a tasteful mural of Yankee greats as centaurs debauching maidens, perhaps?
   

   

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   • Bradley Woodrum says:

     September 19, 2012 at 10:22 am

     Comment of the year?

     Comment of the year.
     

     

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     • Mr. Observant says:

       September 19, 2012 at 10:41 pm

       Grand Merci, Sir – you, too, are clearly a man of good breeding and intellectual refinement.
       

       

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5. Sociology Degreer says:

   September 18, 2012 at 11:52 am

   ha
   

   

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