literary genre

1. 1.

   a style of expressing yourself in writing

   Synonymswriting stylegenre

   Broaderexpressive style

   Narrowerdramaproseformpoetry

Questions about literary genre

What does literary genre mean?

literary genre means "a style of expressing yourself in writing".

What is another word for literary genre?

Close synonyms include writing style, genre. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is literary genre a common word?

literary genre is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.