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Allegory		Gothic		Personification
Alliteration		Graphic Novel		Plot
Allusion		Haibun		Point-of-view
Ambiguity		Haiku		Realism
Apostrophe		History		Regionalism
Assonance		Imagery		Repetition
Autobiography		Irony		Rhetoric
Character		Kenning		Rhythm
Consonance		Legend		Satire
Dialect		Limerick		Setting
Drama		Medieval		Simile
Dramatic Monologue		Metaphor		Slave Narrative
Ecocriticism		Meter		Shakespeare
Elegy		Modernism		Sonnet
Enjambment		Mythology		Stream-of-consciousness
Epic		Narrator		Tanka (Japanese form)
Essay		Naturalism		Time
Fable		Noh		Tragedy
Fairy Tale		Non-fiction		Voice
Fantasy		Onomatopoeia		Victorian
Fiction		Oral History		Villanelle
Folklore		Persona






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