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| action-adventure |
a genre of films, video games, and the like having an exciting undertaking involving risk and danger as its main story line, and involving one or more heroes engaged in a series of physical challenges. [2 definitions] |
| conversation piece |
an eighteenth-century genre picture that depicts a group of fashionable people in an appropriate setting. [1/2 definitions] |
| H.G. Wells |
British author and social critic, born Herman George Wells, celebrated for developing the genre of science fiction. |
| satire |
the literary genre that comprises such works. [1/3 definitions] |
| subgenre |
combined form of genre. |
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