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piece of writing often written from an author's personal point of view
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essay

Summary

essay is a literary genre[1]. essay ranks in the top 6% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,294 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • essay's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3].
  • essay is a type of argumentative text[4].
  • essay is part of non-fiction literature[5].
  • essay is part of essay collection[6].
  • essay's Commons category is recorded as Essays[7].
  • essay's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Essays[8].
  • essay's described by source is recorded as Nordisk familjebok[9].
  • essay's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[10].
  • essay's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[11].
  • essay's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[12].
  • essay's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[13].
  • essay's described by source is recorded as Basque Literature Terms Dictionary[14].
  • essay's hashtag is recorded as essay[15].
  • essay's practiced by is recorded as essayist[16].
  • essay's practiced by is recorded as video essayist[17].
  • essay's related category is recorded as Category:Essay awards[18].

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Definition and Type

essay's instance of is recorded as literary genre[3]. essay is a type of argumentative text[4].

Use and Application

Part of include non-fiction literature[5], a sub-set of literature[19] and essay collection[6], a literary form[20].

Why It Matters

essay ranks in the top 6% of literary_genre entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,294 views/month).[2] essay has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[21] essay is known by 33 alternative names across languages and contexts.[22]

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . jls.um.ac.ir. Retrieved . jls.um.ac.ir. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . euskaltzaindia.eus. Retrieved . euskaltzaindia.eus. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [19] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [20] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [21] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [22] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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