expressive style vs poetry

poetry vs expressive style

expressive style and poetry both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
poetry	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, poetry is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, poetry 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
poetry: any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

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, literary genre, writing style, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	poetry (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	literature in metrical form
	any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

Difference between expressive style and poetry

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