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Genre (or; from French genre, "kind" or "sort", from Latin genus (stem gener), Greek γένος, génos) is any form or type of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc) with socially-agreed upon conventions developed over time.

Genre is most popularly known as a category of literature, music, or other forms of art or entertainment, whether written or spoken, audio or visual, based on some set of stylistic criteria, yet genres can be aesthetic, rhetorical, communicative, or functional.

Genres form by conventions that change over time as new genres are invented and the use of old ones is discontinued.

Often, works fit into multiple genres by way of borrowing and recombining these conventions.

Stand alone texts, works, or pieces of communication may have individual styles, but genres are amalgams of these texts based on agreed upon or socially inferred conventions.

Some genres may be rigid with strictly adhered to guidelines while others may be very flexible.

As a literary genre of high culture, romance or chivalric romance is a type of prose and verse narrative that was popular in the aristocratic circles of High Medieval and Early Modern Europe.

They were fantastic stories about marvel-filled adventures, often of a knight-errant portrayed as having heroic qualities, who goes on a quest, yet it is "the emphasis on love and courtly manners distinguishes it from the chanson de geste and other kinds of epic, in which masculine military heroism predominates." Popular literature also drew on themes of romance, but with ironic, satiric or burlesque intent.

Romances reworked legends, fairy tales, and history to suit the readers' and hearers' tastes, but by c.

1600 they were out of fashion, and Miguel de Cervantes famously burlesqued them in his novel Don Quixote.

Still, the modern image of "medieval" is more influenced by the romance than by any other medieval genre, and the word medieval evokes knights, distressed damsels, dragons, and other romantic tropes.

Adventure fiction refers to fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement.

Fantasy literature is the body of written works that employ the motifs, themes, and stylistic approaches expected in the fantasy genre.

Historically, most works of fantasy were written pieces of literature.

Since the 1960s, a growing segment of the fantasy genre has taken the form of films, television programs, graphic novels, video games, music and painting.

A novel is any relatively long piece of written narrative fiction, normally in prose, and typically published as a book.