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: He had, in today's parlance, paid his dues. Sentence 2: He'd done more than enough

A: slate
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Q: Sentence 1: The 'Russian miracle,' that of always avoiding catastrophes at the last moment, remains, however, fragile--more and more fragile, it said. Sentence 2: The "Russian miracle" is extremely strong and has never been fragile. 

A: slate
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Q: Sentence 1: I thought you'd hear sense. Sentence 2: I knew all along that you'd never listen to me.

A:
fiction
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