LITERARY GENRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does literary genre mean? 

• LITERARY GENRE (noun)
  The noun LITERARY GENRE has 1 sense:

1. a style of expressing yourself in writing

  Familiarity information: LITERARY GENRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LITERARY GENRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A style of expressing yourself in writing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

genre; literary genre; writing style

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)

poesy; poetry; verse (literature in metrical form)