| 单词 | literary genre |
| 释义 | literary genre (once / 288276 pages) n A literary genre is a style of writing. Your favorite literary genre might be science fiction, for example. The word genre means "artistic category or style," and you can talk about a movie's genre, or the genre of music that drives you crazy. When you use the term literary genre, you make it clear that you're talking about books and writing. Bookstores sometimes use literary genres as a way to separate books into different sections, like "classics" or "mysteries." The word genre is French, and it means "kind, sort, or style." WORD FAMILYliterary genre: literary genres USAGE EXAMPLESEach of the eight units is named for an African American writer or a literary genre. Washington Post(Dec 14, 2016) His book was an early example of a now familiar literary genre: the neurotic person finding sudden redemption in nature. Wall Street Journal(Jul 08, 2016) PORTER: Dead parents, dead poets, stubborn dislike of algorithmic thinking about literary genres. Salon(Jun 14, 2016) n a style of expressing yourself in writing Syn|Hypo|Hyper genre, writing style drama the literary genre of works intended for the theater proseordinary writing as distinguished from verse forman arrangement of the elements in a composition or discourse poesy, poetry, verseliterature in metrical form euphuisman elegant style of prose of the Elizabethan period; characterized by balance and antithesis and alliteration and extended similes with and allusions to nature and mythology nonfiction, nonfictional proseprose writing that is not fictional interior monologuea literary genre that presents a fictional character's sequence of thoughts in the form of a monologue stream of consciousnessa literary genre that reveals a character's thoughts and feeling as they develop by means of a long soliloquy prose poemprose that resembles poetry polyphonic prosea rhythmical prose employing the poetic devices of alliteration and assonance eposa body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme closet dramadrama more suitable for reading that for performing comedylight and humorous drama with a happy ending tragedydrama in which the protagonist is overcome by some superior force or circumstance; excites terror or pity epic poetry, heroic poetrypoetry celebrating the deeds of some hero versificationthe form or metrical composition of a poem 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 |
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