expressive style

1. 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 (synset 107080699)
   "all the reporters were expected to adopt the style of the newspaper"
   referred to in:

   • art, artistic creation, artistic production - the creation of beautiful or significant things
   • language, linguistic communication - a systematic means of communicating by the use of sounds or conventional symbols
   • music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner
   is a type of: communication - something that is communicated by or to or between people or groups
   subtypes:

   • allegory - an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances; an extended metaphor
   • analysis - 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 style
   • black humor, black humour - the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
   • device - something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect
   • eloquence, fluency, smoothness - powerful and effective language
   • euphuism - any artificially elegant style of language
   • flatness - a want of animation or brilliance
   • expression, formulation - the style of expressing yourself
   • grandiloquence, grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric - high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation
   • headlinese - using the abbreviated style of headline writers
   • jargon - specialized technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject
   • journalese - the style in which newspapers are written
   • legalese - a style that uses the abstruse technical vocabulary of the law
   • delivery, manner of speaking, speech - your characteristic style or manner of expressing yourself orally
   • genre, music genre, musical genre, musical style - an expressive style of music
   • officialese - the style of writing characteristic of some government officials: formal and obscure
   • pathos - a style that has the power to evoke feelings
   • prose - matter of fact, commonplace, or dull expression
   • rhetoric - using language effectively to please or persuade
   • coarseness, saltiness - language or humor that is down-to-earth
   • self-expression - the expression of one's individuality (usually through creative activities)
   • sesquipedality - using long words
   • terseness - a neatly short and concise expressive style
   • turn of expression, turn of phrase - a distinctive spoken or written expression
   • vein - a distinctive style or manner
   • verboseness, verbosity - an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words
   • genre, literary genre, writing style - a style of expressing yourself in writing
   • poetry - any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling
   same as: style

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