expressive style

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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; "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"stylecommunication - something that is communicated by or to or between people or groupsartistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully"language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols; "he taught foreign languages"; "the language introduced is standard throughout the text"; "the speed with which a program can be executed depends on the language in which it is written"allegory - an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphormusic - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manneranalysis - the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., `the father of the bride' instead of `the bride's father'bathos - triteness or triviality of styleblack humor, black humour - the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effectdevice - something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effecteloquence, fluency, smoothness - powerful and effective language; "his eloquence attracted a large congregation"; "fluency in spoken and written English is essential"; "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police"euphuism - any artificially elegant style of languageflatness - a want of animation or brilliance; "the almost self-conscious flatness of Hemingway's style"formulation, expression - the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language"headlinese - using the abbreviated style of headline writersjargon - specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subjectjournalese - the style in which newspapers are writtenlegalese - a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the lawmanner of speaking, delivery, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally; "his manner of speaking was quite abrupt"; "her speech was barren of southernisms"; "I detected a slight accent in his speech"music genre, musical genre, musical style, genre - an expressive style of musicofficialese - the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscurepathos - a style that has the power to evoke feelingsprose - matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expressionrhetoric - using language effectively to please or persuadecoarseness, saltiness - language or humor that is down-to-earth; "the saltiness of their language was inappropriate"; "self-parody and saltiness riddled their core genre"self-expression - the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)sesquipedality - using long wordsterseness - a neatly short and concise expressive styleturn of expression, turn of phrase - a distinctive spoken or written expression; "John's succinct turn of phrase persuaded her that it would not be a good idea"vein - a distinctive style or manner; "he continued in this vein for several minutes"verboseness, verbosity - an expressive style that uses excessive or empty wordsliterary genre, writing style, genre - a style of expressing yourself in writingpoetry - any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling