Hypernym

• 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.

Hyponym

• ACCESSUS AD AUCTORESIntroductory remark in PREFACE This mode in which the author presents himself to his audience, typically in an introduction, is late to become common in China and very obviously needs careful study in connection with Chinese notions of authorship and the choreography of the "posing" in authorship, as manifested in traditional texts.
• EXORDIUMPREFACE typically at the beginning of speech, introducing a text or speech without immediately entering into the subject.
• DEDICATIOPREFACE in the form of a formal ADDRESS to a person who is hailed as the formal addressee of a book.
• POSTFACEPREFACE placed at the end of what it is the preface of.