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- the novel's hero is of a different genre than the traditional kind
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“Genre.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/genre. Accessed 27 Feb. 2020.
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The first known use of genre was in 1770
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