Hypernym

• PREFACELITERARY GENRE in the form of a short text serving as an introduction to a much longer book or written/spoken text by someone else.
• LITERARY GENRECulturally "Institutionalised" RHETORICAL DEVICE which consists in writing something consciously as belonging to a recognised literary genre or conventionally practised kind of document. These genres or text sorts constitute an evolving repertoire of available genres.
  • RHETORICAL DEVICE詞格　METHOD of adorning discourse.