Question

What is "genre"? (5 points)

a famous novel by a French author

a form of short story from the 1800s

a word meaning categories of stories

a form of novel from the 1900s

Answer 1

A genre is what a book or show falls into. For example, horror movies are categorized in one section. So whenever you want to look for a horror movie, you don’t have to look at any other genre but horror.

Answer 2

A word meaning categories of stories.


Genre, as you might guess from the way it sounds, comes straight from French, a language based on Latin. It's closely related to genus, a word you may have encountered in biology class. Both words contain the gen-root because they indicate that everything in a particular category (a genre or a genus) belongs to the same "family" and thus has the same origins