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






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