A class or category of texts with similarities in form, style, or subject matter. The definition of a genre changes over time, and a text often interacts with multiple genres. A text’s relationship to [..]

Relationships Related Term:  record type Distinguish From:  subject n. ~ A distinctive type of literary or artistic materials, usually characterized by style or function rather than subject, physical [..]

1 a particular style used in cinema, writing, or art, which can be recognized by certain featuresThe novel did not really exist as a genre before the 17th century.There’s a whole genre of films about [..]

A category of media texts characterized by a particular style, form or content.

1770, "particular style of art," a French word in English (nativized from c. 1840), from French genre "kind, sort, style" (see gender (n.)). Used especially in French for "ind [..]

A category of artistic practice having a particular form, content, or technique. Related: Paul Cézanne. Still Life with Apples. 1895–98 The Body in Art Surrealist Landscapes

category of art.

This is a French 19th-century term used in an art-historical context to describe a type of subject matter for painting. Such pictures were particularly favoured in the Netherlands in the 17th century [..]

A type or category of literature or film marked by certain shared features or conventions. The three broadest categories of genre include poetry, drama, and fiction. These general genres are often sub [..]

a kind of literary or artistic work writing style: a style of expressing yourself in writing music genre: an expressive style of music a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic for [..]

a category characterized by a particular style, form, or content. Common genres are action, adventure, role-play, strategy, and so on.

A genre is a literary kind — and, in fact, the word means just that in French, a "kind" or "type." The word is used with various degrees of precision. Some, for instance, [..]

(from Latin genus, type, kind): works of literature tend to conform to certain types, or kinds. Thus we will describe a work as belonging to, for example, one of the following genres: epic, pastoral, [..]

A term used to designate a type of literature according to its subject matter and how the subject is treated.

A literary form; examples of literary genres are tragedy, comedy, epic, and novel. Generic classifications may appear simple on the surface, but one faces serious practical problems when one tries to [..]

A major literary form, such as drama, poetry, and the novel.

A category of artistic, musical or literary composition characterised by a particular style, form or content; a kind or type of work.

The categories into which texts are grouped. The term has a complex history within literary and linguistic theory and is often used to distinguish texts on the basis of, for example, their subject mat [..]

 – categories of literature: fiction, poetry, drama

The general type or form of a literary work, e.g. poetry, drama, novel, short story. A sub-genre of poetry is, for example, lyric poetry. Hamartia

originally a French word meaning "kind", "sort" or "type"; refers to a class or type of film (i.e., westerns, sci-fi, etc.) that shares common, pr [..]

A category of classification for literature such as fiction, non-fiction, and so forth. Pronounced zhahn-ruh.

Games like most other forms of media are categorized into genres based on gameplay, atmosphere and various other factors. Common game genres include FPS (first-person shooter), RTS (real-time strategy [..]

Genre is a category used to classify discourse and literary works, usually by form, technique, or content.

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noun Definition: a painting of a particular style or from a particular time Word History: from Middle FrenchExample Sentence: The painting's genre was classical.

A type, class, or style of literature, music, film, or art. Genre criticism originated with Aristotle, who divided literature into three basic categories: dramatic, epic, and lyric. Today, literary wo [..]

Style or manner. In music, a unique category of composition with similar style, form, emotion, or subject.

A way of categorising different types of moving image texts. As it has a particular usage in Film Studies it can often sound clumsy or inappropriate when applied to other media forms, like video or te [..]

A category of expression (art, oral tradition, literature) distinguished by a definite style, form, or content, such as folktales, legends, proverbs, ballads, or myths.

(n) a kind of literary or artistic work(n) a style of expressing yourself in writing(n) an expressive style of music(n) a class of art (or artistic endeavor) having a characteristic form or technique [..]

Genre refers to text types which learners meet in the school curriculum. Each genre has specific social purposes, particular overall structures and specific linguistic features shared by particular cultures. It also has a number of characteristics which make it different from other genres. Genre forms include advertisement, argument, article, autob [..]

A category of literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content (e.g., an historical novel is one fictional genre).

 Genre is a French word that means ‘type’. Films are classified into different genres. Notable genres include: action, adventure , comedy, crime, epic films, horror, musicals, science fiction, war films, westerns and film noir.

Any category of art, music, film, literature, etc., based on a set of stylistic criteria.

a type or category of music (e.g., sonata, opera, oratorio, art song, gospel, suite, jazz, madrigal, march, work song, lullaby, barbershop, Dixieland).

[1] classification of music by some combination of function, medium, form, or idiom; examples are: opera

The term used to identify a general category of music that shares similar performance forces, formal structures, and/or style-for example, "string quartet" or " 1 2-bar blues."

The category a story or script falls into - such as: thriller, romantic comedy, action, screwball comedy

In a broad sense, the term is used to mean a particular branch or category of art; landscape and portraiture, for example, are genres of painting, and the essay and the short story are genres of liter [..]

Style of film dictated by particular thematic conventions.

A category marked by similar subject matter, style, and form. Examples of film and literary genres include horror, fantasy, comedy, and science fiction.

a type of film for which audience have a set of particular expectations in regard to plot, style, tone, outcome, and theme.

The French word for ‘type’ or ‘kind’. In film studies we speak of the ‘Gangster Genre’, the ‘Western Genre’ etc.

A type of discourse that occurs in a particular setting, that has distinctive and recognizable patterns and norms of organization and structure, and that has particular and distinctive communicative functions

Specific kinds of media content, e.g., entertainment, information, news, advertising, etc. Each category is defined with traditional conventions, but categories may overlap.

The class or category of an object when considered as an intellectual work.

refers to whatever type of literary theme that a story can be sorted as. Includes such common categories as drama, humour, romance, mystery, suspense, adventure, horror, fantasy, science fiction, hurt [..]

The genre of a game refers to the method of play. Popular genres include simulation, strategy, action, and role-playing.

A subject for many artists, it is depiction of people going about human interactive activities such as domestic chores, moving into frontiers, fighting or socializing. Genre paintings are often narrat [..]

Genre, (French: "kind" or "sort") is a division of a particular form of art or utterance according to criteria particular to that form. In all art forms, genres are vague categorie [..]

Type of painting concerned with the realistic depiction of subjects and scenes from everyday life. Genre paintings deal with ordinary life and common activities, including family life, sports, street [..]

Art that depicts the casual moments of everyday life and its surroundings.

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Genre refers to a type or category of artistic form, subject, technique, style or medium.

This is a very standard type of art and can be found in all kinds of times and from all different places. The art depicts a normal and everyday event of life such as a farmer or a scene from a Dutch t [..]

scenes of anonymous figures engaged in everyday activities; a category of subject matter in the fine arts (for example, the genre of landscape painting)

depiction of scenes from everyday life - ordinary folks (plural is categories of subject matter - See ArtLex)

General term describing the standard category and overall character of a work.

Genre painting is Art that depicts subjects and scenes from everyday life, ordinary people and common activities. Also a type of painting can be identified by the Genre ie the genre of the painting is [..]

A means of categorizing works of art based on style, form, and subject matter. For example, history painting and landscape are genres of painting; horror and romantic comedy are genres of film; detect [..]

Genre. Say it out loud. Sounds fancy, right? Well, it's not. It really just means "kind" in French. And that's exactly what genre is: a kind. In our case, a kind of literature. Wha [..]

a type or category of works sharing particular formal or textual features and conventions; especially used to refer to the largest categories for classifying literature—fiction, poetry, drama, and non [..]