alipkona: the coming-of-age story.
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Description: Coming-of-age stories need not be oriented at children, and in fact few of them are. A Lilitu must face a number of developmental challenges and stages throughout her life, such as leaving her mother, learning to stand up for herself, finding her first job, discovering her intellectual aspirations, overcoming grief, finding love, having children of her own, raising them, losing love, dealing with old age, dealing with success or failure, and finally accepting the inevitability of death. Many works have been built around these themes, and most commonly the moment of crisis is encapsulated as an internal dialogue between two or more elements of the protagonist's own mind, often (but not always) corresponding to various Stillai (goddesses). Alipkona is subverted in a trope of tragedy, called alipdúkona, where this internal dialogue does not have the expected outcome for some reason.
amekona: romance.
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Description: There are several different types of romance story in Lilitic writing. Soima (from the later term soimí amekona, 'cool' or 'even-tempered' romance) is the most classical: virtuous stories revolving around the idea that proper, truthful conduct in intimate relationships yields the best possible outcome. As the genre developed, a variant for younger readers, Keima ('hot' romance) emerged during the time of the Venrafíai, which left out the denouement phase of the story and limited focus instead to the first stages of the relationship, generally leaving the protagonists fully committed to one another as in most romance stories from shorter-lived culture. Keima stories were well-received by their intended audience and gradually increased in erotic content to the point of absurdity, finally being largely supplanted by Soféma ('coitus' romance) around 700 lilpo, a more loosely-defined catch-all for erotic stories that may have little or no moral content.
dúkona: tragedy.
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kokona: the pastoral.
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kolikona: nostalgia.
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nassekona: the personal confession.
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pokona: comedy.
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sarnokona: the moral tale.
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telzokona: suspense.
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thestokona: satire.
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wemnokona: the heroic epic.
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