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| Word | Syllables | Categories | 
|---|---|---|
| subgenre | /x  | Noun, Noun  | 
| fiction | /x  | Noun  | 
| trope | x  | Noun  | 
| subculture | /xx  | Noun  | 
| music | /x  | Noun  | 
| literary | /xxx  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| style | /  | Noun  | 
| horror | /x  | Noun  | 
| classics | /x  | Noun  | 
| niche | /  | Noun  | 
| erotica | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| indie | /x  | Noun  | 
| noir | /  | Noun  | 
| literature | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| cyberpunk | /x/  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| stylistics | x/x  | Noun  | 
| anime | /xx  | Noun  | 
| type | /  | Noun  | 
| category | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| mainstream | /x  | Noun  | 
| oeuvre | /x  | Noun  | 
| topic | /x  | Noun  | 
| rubric | /x  | Noun  | 
| fine arts | //  | Phrase, Noun  | 
| canon | /x  | Noun  | 
| arts | /  | Noun  | 
| album | /x  | Noun  | 
| aesthetic | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| autobiography | xxx/xx  | Noun  | 
| discipline | /xx  | Noun  | 
| letters | /x  | Noun  | 
| classicism | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| anthology | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| technology | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| work | /  | Noun  | 
| grammar | /x  | Noun  | 
| juvenile | /xx  | Noun  | 
| bibliography | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| text | /  | Noun  | 
| literati | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| miscellany | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| grade | /  | Noun  | 
| crit | /  | Name  | 
| comparative literature | x/xx/xxx  | Name, Name  | 
| career | x/  | Noun  | 
| critique | x/  | Noun  | 
| academy | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| encomium | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| craft | /  | Noun  | 
| department | x/x  | Noun  | 
| version | /x  | Noun  | 
| social class | /x/  | Name, Name  | 
| gradation | x/x  | Noun  | 
| chapter | /x  | Noun  | 
| humanities | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| culture | /x  | Noun  | 
| geography | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| science | /x  | Noun  | 
| subject | x/  | Noun  | 
| grammar school | /x/  | Phrase, Noun  | 
| class | /  | Noun  | 
| language arts | /x/  | Phrase, Noun  | 
| geog | //  | Name  | 
| humanism | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| library | /xx  | Noun  | 
| school | /  | Noun  | 
| literacy | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| encyclopedia | xxx/xx  | Noun  | 
| biography | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| terminology | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| treatise | /x  | Noun  | 
| liberal arts | /xx/  | Phrase, Noun  | 
| harmony | /xx  | Noun  | 
| line | /  | Noun  | 
| rhetorical | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| epistle | x/x  | Noun  | 
| agriculture | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| standard | /x  | Noun  | 
| domain | x/  | Noun  | 
| degree | x/  | Noun  | 
| sourcebook | /x  | Noun  | 
| book | /  | Noun  | 
| academe | /xx  | Noun  | 
| highbrow | /x  | Noun  | 
| year | /  | Noun  | 
| kindergarten | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| monograph | /xx  | Noun  | 
| tome | /  | Noun  | 
| theme | /  | Noun  | 
| socio | /xx  | Noun  | 
| essay | x/  | Noun  | 
| scholarship | /xx  | Noun  | 
| techne | x  | Noun  | 
| study | /x  | Noun  | 
| traction | /x  | Noun  | 
| academic | xx/x  | Name  | 
| textbook | /x  | Noun  | 
| philology | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| quality | /xx  | Adverb  | 
| bildungsroman | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| thriller | /x  | Noun  | 
| hagiography | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| parodies | /xx  | Verb  | 
| epistolary | x/xxx  | Adjective  | 
| novelistic | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| portraiture | /xx  | Noun  | 
| hagiographic | /xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| masterpiece | /xx  | Noun  | 
| elegy | /xx  | Noun  | 
| conventions | x/x  | Noun  | 
| melodrama | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| dystopian | //xx  | Adjective  | 
| comedic | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| pastoral | /xx  | Noun  | 
| exemplar | x/x  | Noun  | 
| homiletic | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| cliches | x/  | Noun  | 
| excelled | x/  | Verb  | 
| epic | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| gospels | /x  | Noun  | 
| elegiac | /xxx  | Adjective  | 
| lyric | /x  | Noun  | 
| satire | /xx  | Noun  | 
| apocalypse | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| bucolic | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| poetics | x/x  | Noun  | 
| apocalyptic | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| documentary | xx/xx  | Noun  | 
| exponents | x/x  | Noun  | 
| popularized | /xxx  | Verb  | 
| lament | x/  | Noun  | 
| romance | x/  | Noun  | 
| picaresque | xx/  | Adjective  | 
| comedy | /xx  | Noun  | 
| cinematic | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| belongs | x/  | Verb  | 
| moribund | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| detective | x/x  | Noun  | 
| protean | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| folkloric | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| escapist | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| spawned | /  | Verb  | 
| operatic | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| redefining | xx/x  | Verb  | 
| formulaic | xx/x  | Adjective  | 
| staple | /x  | Noun  | 
| confessional | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| satiric | x/x  | Adjective  | 
| melodramatic | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| fable | /x  | Noun  | 
| abstract expressionism | x/x/xxx  | Name, Name  | 
| allegorical | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| ballad | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| drama | /x  | Noun  | 
| evocative | x/xx  | Adjective  | 
| exhibited | x/xx  | Verb  | 
| expressionism | x/xxx  | Noun  | 
| folk art | //  | Phrase, Noun  | 
| form | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| futurist | /xx  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| gender | /x  | Noun, Verb, Adjective  | 
| genera | /xx  | Adjective  | 
| generic | x/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| guy | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| idiom | /xx  | Noun  | 
| impressionism | x/xxx  | Noun  | 
| impressionist | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| impressionistic | xxx/x  | Adjective  | 
| kind | /  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| kinda | /x  | Noun, Adverb  | 
| landscape | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| like | /  | Verb, Noun, Adjective, Adverb  | 
| magic realism | /x/xx  | Phrase, Noun  | 
| mode | /  | Noun  | 
| modernism | /xxx  | Noun  | 
| morphological | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| motif | x/  | Noun  | 
| narrative | /xx  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| nature | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| nonfiction | x/x  | Noun  | 
| opera | /x  | Noun  | 
| persona | x/x  | Noun  | 
| pictures | /x  | Noun  | 
| poesy | /xx  | Noun, Verb  | 
| poetry | /xx  | Noun  | 
| postmodernism | x/xxx  | Noun  | 
| primitivism | /xxxx  | Noun  | 
| prose | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| realism | /xx  | Noun  | 
| sex | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| singing | /x  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| sort | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| such | /  | Noun  | 
| surrealism | x/xx  | Noun  | 
| taxonomic | /x/x  | Adjective  | 
| topoi | //  | Noun  | 
| typological | xx/xx  | Adjective  | 
| verse | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| idiomatic | xxx/x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| headlines | /x  | Noun  | 
| expression | x/x  | Noun  | 
| tell | /  | Verb, Noun  | 
| cloth | /  | Noun  | 
| vernacular | x/xx  | Noun, Adjective  | 
| milestone | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| literally | /xxx  | Adverb  | 
| dialect | /xx  | Noun  | 
| chunk | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| cluster | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| oh | /  | Noun, Verb  | 
| collocation | xx/x  | Noun  | 
| maypole | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| stovepipe | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
| girly | /x  | Adjective, Noun  | 
| daylight | /x  | Noun, Verb  | 
