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

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