7. what is the purpose of "defining a genre"?
a. to define and classify works of literature based on certain criteria
b. to explain and evaluate the effectiveness of literary techniques
c. to analyze the organization of a piece of literature
d. to explain the characteristics of a type of writing using specific examples as
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a. to define and classify works of literature based on certain criteria .

true. the definition explains it: a word or phrase that modifies or qualifies an adjective, verb, or other adverb or a word group, expressing a relation of place, time, circumstance, manner, cause, degree, etc. this is a dictionary definition that i have looked up in a dictionary.

you need to explain that more, your grammer just needs to be close to perfect.