Literary genre refers to the specific style of literary works and is one of the elements of literary form, which can be referred to as "style" for short. In the creation and classification of literary works, the common literary genres are poems, novels, essays, scripts, dramatic novels, fables and newsletters. These different literary genres have their own unique characteristics and laws. For example, poetry pays more attention to rhythm and lyricism, novels pay more attention to characterization and plot arrangement, and prose pays more attention to expressing the author's feelings and thoughts.
However, the concept of literary style is not clearly defined, which can generally be understood as a classification of literary works. Common dichotomy (verse, prose), trisection (narrative, lyric, drama), tetralogy (poetry, prose, drama, novel) and pentalogy (poetry, script, dramatic novel, novel, prose). These classification methods are mainly based on the external form and content characteristics of literary works, which embodies the diversity of literary works in expression form and style.
In a word, although there is some intersection between literary genre and literary style, they are not exactly the same. Literary genre mainly pays attention to the specific style and characteristics of literary works, while literary style pays more attention to the classification and expression style of literary works.