Genres are the different types of writing and the guidelines associated with them. It is typically described as a category that helps build a rhetorical situation. Different genres elicit different responses from different people. For example, romance novels can cause the reader to be happy, while a mystery novel can cause your heart to race. A rhetorical situation is the when our writing becomes more concerned with style and effort and becomes more of an individual work. The rhetorical situations can both inspire and influence writing. It can be broken down by purpose, audience, context, tone and genre. The building blocks of a rhetorical situation allow the speaker to show the writer their situation and what to expect. Genre and rhetorical situation connected in their ability to help the reader respond to the circumstance in which the writing is taking place.
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