matter - written works (especially in books or magazines); "he always took some reading matter with him on the plane"

cookie - a short line of text that a web site puts on your computer's hard drive when you access the web site

word order - the order of words in a text

written matter, copy - matter to be printed; exclusive of graphical materials

draft copy, draft - preliminary version of a written work

electronic text - text that is in a form that a computer can store and display on a computer screen

hard copy - text that is typed or printed on paper; "he ran off a hard copy of the report"

instalment, installment - a part of a published serial

book - a major division of a long written composition; "the book of Isaiah"

chapter - a subdivision of a written work; usually numbered and titled; "he read a chapter every night before falling asleep"

foreword, preface, prolusion - a short introductory essay preceding the text of a book

paragraph - one of several distinct subdivisions of a text intended to separate ideas; the beginning is usually marked by a new indented line

passage - a section of text; particularly a section of medium length

publication - a copy of a printed work offered for distribution

letter, missive - a written message addressed to a person or organization; "mailed an indignant letter to the editor"

line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"

lipogram - a text that excludes a particular letter or particular letters of the alphabet

lyric, words, language - the text of a popular song or musical-comedy number; "his compositions always started with the lyrics"; "he wrote both words and music"; "the song uses colloquial language"

stanza - a fixed number of lines of verse forming a unit of a poem