• Flat pieces of metal from which textual or pictorial images are printed. For blocks of other material, usually wood, cut to print an image or used to support other materials that form the printing surface, use "printing blocks" or a more specific term.

• Printed works that are created to meet an array of immediate needs, usually transitory in nature not intended to be saved. Examples could be broadsides, posters, leaflets, pamphlets, programs, postcards, tradecards, labels, tickets, handbills, sale notices, and valentines.

• RBMS Genre Terms.
• Art & Architecture Thesaurus.

• Architectural drawings presented to a client to illustrate how the building will look and function.

• Use for placards, often decorative or pictorial, intended to be displayed for purposes of announcement, advertisement, or decoration.

• Cards on which a message may be written or printed for mailing without an envelope, usually at a lower rate than that for letters in envelopes.

• Representations of real individuals that are intended to capture a known or supposed likeness, usually including the face of the person. For representations intended to be anonymous, or of fictional or mythological characters, see

Use for: Poetry.

• Written or oral compositions characterized by condensed language chosen for sound and suggestive power as well as meaning, and by the use of such literary techniques as structured meter, natural cadences, rhyme, or metaphor.