expressive style vs black humor

black humor vs expressive style

expressive style and black humor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
black humor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, black humor is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, black humor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than expressive style:

expressive 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
black humor: the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humour, device, eloquence, fluency, smoothness, euphuism, flatness, expression, formulation, grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric, headlinese, jargon, journalese, legalese, delivery, manner of speaking, speech, officialese, pathos, prose, rhetoric, coarseness, saltiness, self-expression, sesquipedality, terseness, turn of expression, turn of phrase, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	black humor (noun)
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	the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect

Difference between expressive style and black humor

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