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Rank	Topic	Wikipedia views
1	Poetry	7,985
2	Satire	7,331
3	Literature	6,697
4	Poet	4,911
5	Prose	3,495
6	Allusion	2,919
7	Anecdote	2,639
8	Play (theatre)	1,753
9	Proverb	1,487
10	Moral	1,399
11	Writing style	1,256
12	Western canon	1,252
13	Literary genre	1,147
14	Creative writing	1,123
15	Film adaptation	912
16	Prologue	892
17	Epilogue	887
18	Epistle	698
19	Aside	560
20	Vignette (literature)	555
21	Epigraph (literature)	515
22	Foreword	514
23	Imagery (literature)	463
24	English studies	419
25	Serial (literature)	379
26	Collaborative writing	340
27	Length of a novel	303
28	Introduction (essay)	267
29	Literary language	221
30	Literary adaptation	221
31	Verisimilitude (literature)	220
32	Gray literature	212
33	Classic book	209
34	Poetics	204
35	Contemporary literature	198
36	Eye dialect	177
37	Literary element	172
38	Perverse incentive	166
39	Balanced sentence	161
40	English major	157
41	Afterword	148
42	Lead paragraph	141
43	Modern literature	135
44	Vernacular literature	107
45	Electronic literature	106
46	Proverbial phrase	89
47	List of literary cycles	78
48	Indie Literature	77
49	Anonymous work	76
50	Comedy of menace	73
51	Dedication (publishing)	72
52	Extant literature	59
53	Confessional writing	52
54	Inclusio	48
55	Interstitial art	45
56	Popular history	45
57	Futurism (literature)	37
58	Non-fictional character	34
59	Whitehall farce	21
60	Domestic realism	20
61	Dual Narrative	19
62	Decasyllabic quatrain	17
63	Sociology of literature	15
64	Laughter in literature	12
65	Etat second	12
66	Umbrella title	11
67	Rumour at Nightfall	11
68	Life of Graham Greene (Volume 3)	10
69	Gawęda	8
70	Serge Marjollet	8
71	Historical realism	6
72	Literary cycles	less than 5 views
73	Subliterature	less than 5 views
74	International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature	less than 5 views

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