It is the literary mode called Romance.

The film is a meditation on catastrophe, contextualised through the literary modes of religion and science fiction.

We must avoid any temptation to condemn him as unreal, and recognize a perfectly valid literary mode.

There was, one might say in a literary mode, a grand slaughter building down below.

The last word on the relationship between his literary mode and that of realism may perhaps go to Professor Frank Kermode, who wrote:

Nevertheless it is a mistake to think that the only literary modes which exist are those one period is familiar with.

Dr. Brueggemann is known throughout the world for his method of combining literary and sociological modes when reading Bible.

Roth takes the writer's free acknowledgment of many literary modes while unceasingly experimenting with his own.

The show has boldly flung off prime time's imperative to topicality, and embraced an overtly literary mode.

Shall I put it in literary mode, Miss Pedant?