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1146:Plot device
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2163:Categories
2029:Continuity
1898:Nonfiction
1862:Underwater
1758:Picaresque
1733:Historical
1718:Epistolary
1590:Fairy tale
1501:Peripeteia
1483:Exposition
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1743:Nautical
1654:Vignette
1612:Gamebook
1580:Folklore
1487:Protasis
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1311:Metaphor
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1264:universe
1244:Dystopia
1201:Suspense
1087:Dialogue
1075:Conflict
983:Narrator
955:Hamartia
744:ABC-CLIO
238:See also
226:Examples
187:Samuel I
133:Various
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179:Abraham
123:fiction
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2003:Future
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1810:Satire
1728:Erotic
1595:Legend
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1798:Prose
1783:Rogue
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1563:Drama
1528:films
1358:Style
1326:Motif
1316:Moral
1301:Irony
1293:Theme
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624:(2),
260:Notes
249:Moral
175:Bible
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2072:List
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