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800 Literature

[May 18, 2026]
THE_MORIBUND_INSTITUTE // DEWEY CLASS 800

800 – Literature, Rhetoric & Textual Mischief

The Institute wing for essays, fiction, poetry, rhetoric, criticism, literary history, creative writing, quotations, style, narrative, song-adjacent language, and the many ways humans put words in a row and then argue about the row.

Shelves in 800

800 Literature The main shelf for literature, essays, rhetoric, poetry, fiction, and textual criticism. Essays Arguments, meditations, commentaries, explanations, defenses, and Institute-style prose. Poetry Poems, poetic forms, imagery, meter, metaphor, lyric fragments, and verse commentary. Fiction Stories, novels, characters, invented worlds, narrative structure, and fictional machinery. Creative Writing Drafts, prompts, style experiments, prose exercises, invented terms, and narrative practice. Rhetoric Persuasion, argument, style, speech, figures, framing, audience, and verbal strategy. Literary Criticism Interpretation, close reading, themes, symbols, genre, influence, and critical commentary. World Literature Literary works, authors, traditions, translations, and cross-cultural textual trails. Classics Ancient texts, epics, myths, classical rhetoric, old genres, and stubbornly surviving books. Drama Plays, theatre texts, dialogue, stage language, dramatic structure, and performance writing. Quotations Memorable lines, excerpts, sayings, citations, aphorisms, and portable fragments. Style Voice, tone, diction, syntax, pacing, ornament, concision, and prose texture. Word and Song Lyrics, musical language, poetic song structures, and the borderland between 700 and 800. MorDictionary Invented entries, definitions, lexical jokes, poetic terms, and dictionary-like prose experiments.

Use this class when the post is mainly about literature, writing, rhetoric, essays, poetry, fiction, style, or textual interpretation. If the post is mainly about language mechanics, also consider 400 Language. If it is about music or performance, also consider 700 Arts.

Suggested Lesson Types

Close Readings Line-by-line interpretation of poems, essays, lyrics, stories, and arguments. Writing Prompts Creative exercises for fiction, poetry, rhetoric, essays, and style experiments. Rhetoric Lessons Short lessons on persuasion, framing, figures of speech, argument, and audience. Literary Maps Author trails, influence chains, genre maps, theme clusters, and reading paths. Definition Drills Interactive practice for terms like metaphor, irony, motif, genre, and rhetoric. Interactive Exercises Tap-to-build, flashcards, quizzes, reading checks, and embed-based literature lessons.

Example 800 Lesson Embed

A literature lesson can pair a short explanation with a rhetoric, style, or interpretation exercise.

This is useful for literary vocabulary, rhetorical terms, sentence craft, close reading checks, and poetic or essay-writing lessons. 
<div class="mor-tap-to-build" data-questions='[
  {
    "prompt": "Put the literature sentence in order:",
    "phrase": "A metaphor compares without using like or as.",
    "answer": ["A", "metaphor", "compares", "without", "using", "like", "or", "as."],
    "distractors": ["stone", "machine", "under", "forgot"]
  },
  {
    "prompt": "Build the rhetoric sentence:",
    "phrase": "Rhetoric studies how language persuades.",
    "answer": ["Rhetoric", "studies", "how", "language", "persuades."],
    "distractors": ["river", "purple", "ancient", "quietly"]
  }
]'></div>

<script src="https://mor-blogger-embeds.pages.dev/tap-to-build/tap-to-build.js"></script>

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