In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.

Sentence 1: they're expensive to maintain just the chemicals are expensive Sentence 2: The chemicals are expensive, but much cheaper when bought in bulk.
telephone

Sentence 1: But Sir James was already on the topmost stair. Sentence 2: Sir James was at the very bottom of the stairs. 
fiction

Sentence 1: The movie reeks of film-student overkill (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy  [I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view. Sentence 2: Critics have claimed that the movie is sophomoric. 

slate