expressive style vs literary genre

literary genre vs expressive style

expressive style and literary genre both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
literary genre	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, literary genre is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, literary genre 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
literary genre: a style of expressing yourself in writing

Other hyponyms of expressive style include allegory, analysis, bathos, black humor, 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, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	literary genre (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	a style of expressing yourself in writing

Difference between expressive style and literary genre

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