expressive style vs speech

speech vs expressive style

expressive style and speech both are nouns.

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

As nouns, speech is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, speech 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
speech: your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally

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, 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)	speech (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 mental faculty or power of vocal communication
	(language) communication by word of mouth
	the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience
	words making up the dialogue of a play
	a lengthy rebuke
	the exchange of spoken words
	your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
	something spoken

Difference between expressive style and speech

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