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LITERARY GENRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A style of expressing yourself in writing
Synonyms:
genre; literary genre; writing style
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("literary genre" is a kind of...):
expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "literary genre"):
drama (the literary genre of works intended for the theater)
prose (ordinary writing as distinguished from verse)
form (an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse)
