literary argument

1. 1.

   a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie

   “the editor added the argument to the poem”

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Questions about literary argument

What does literary argument mean?

literary argument means "a summary of the subject or plot of a literary work or play or movie".

What is another word for literary argument?

Close synonyms include argument. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is literary argument a common word?

literary argument is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.