A genre is a means of categorizing stories using shared elements.
‘Shared elements’ includes setting, tropes, themes, tone, subject matter and so on.
I landed on the above definition after not knowing how to define genre for a long time…so, I need to gradually re-write the pages listed below to account for the new definition. Don’t worry too much about it.
Sub-Genre is the term for a genre that is nested within a genre.