In this task, you're given a pair of sentences, sentence 1 and sentence 2. Your job is to write a single word that describes the genre that the two sentences belong to, such as face-to-face, government, letters, 9/11, slate, telephone, travel, verbatim, oup, fiction.

Q: Sentence 1: Nothing seemed to matter. Sentence 2: It seemed that nothing mattered.

A: fiction
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Q: Sentence 1: It's just there. Sentence 2: There it is and it's big. 

A: fiction
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Q: Sentence 1: Other critics add that the university's current presence in Northwest gives many Washingtonians a valuable opportunity to leave their troubled neighborhoods behind. Sentence 2: The critics also said that the university is ugly.

A:
slate
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