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Which of the following is not a genre? Short story Essay Biography Plot

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Which of the following is not a genre?

  • Short story
  • Essay
  • Biography
  • Plot

The correct answer is Plot

The plot falls under the tragedy genre. Aristotle’s proscriptive analysis of tragedy, for example, as expressed in his Rhetoric and Poetics, saw it as having 6 parts (music, diction, plot, character, thought, and spectacle) working together in particular ways.