Hypernyms for "expressive style"
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allegory
analysis
bathos
black humor
black humour
coarseness
delivery
device
eloquence
euphuism
expression
flatness
fluency
formulation
genre
grandiloquence
grandiosity
headlinese
jargon
journalese
legalese
literary genre
magniloquence
manner of speaking
music genre
musical genre
musical style
officialese
ornateness
pathos
poetry
prose
rhetoric
saltiness
self-expression
sesquipedality
smoothness
speech
terseness
turn of expression
turn of phrase
vein
verboseness
verbosity
writing style
What are hypernyms?
Hypernyms are words with a broader meaning that includes the meaning of the original word. For example, "animal" is a hypernym of "dog" because a dog is a type of animal.
Think of hypernyms as "umbrella terms" or categories that include the original word.