subgenre

Dictionary: sub·gen·re

(sŭb'zhän'rə) pronunciation

n.
A subcategory within a particular genre: The academic mystery is a subgenre of the mystery novel.

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subgenre [sub‐zhahⁿr], any category of literary works that forms a specific class within a larger genre: thus the pastoral elegy may be regarded as a subgenre of elegy, which is in turn a subgenre of lyric poetry.

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