literary genre

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literary genre - a style of expressing yourself in writing

writing style, genre

drama - the literary genre of works intended for the theater

prose - ordinary writing as distinguished from verse

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; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"

form - an arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse; "the essay was in the form of a dialogue"; "he first sketches the plot in outline form"

poesy, poetry, verse - literature in metrical form

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