expressive style vs turn of phrase

turn of phrase vs expressive style

expressive style and turn of phrase both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
expressive style	Yes	No	No	No
turn of phrase	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, turn of phrase is a hyponym of expressive style; that is, turn of phrase 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
turn of phrase: a distinctive spoken or written expression

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, vein, verboseness, verbosity, genre, literary genre, writing style, poetry, digressiveness.

expressive style (noun)	turn of phrase (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 distinctive spoken or written expression

Difference between expressive style and turn of phrase

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