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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: Mr. Knightley, his brother John, and Emma.
* [[Desperately Looking for A Purpose In Life]]: And this purpose becomes shipping, among other things.
* {{spoiler|[[Double
* [[Doting Parent]]: Mr. Woodhouse adores his daughters, and is vastly troubled by the idea that anyone would think Emma less than perfect. Isabella is also shown to be this to her five children, and Miss Bates is a doting aunt to Jane Fairfax. Also, Mrs. Weston (formerly Miss Taylor) is Emma's childhood governess, and not much less inclined than Mr. Woodhouse to think her anything but flawless.
* [[Generation Xerox]]: In personality, at least, the narrative indicates that Isabella is exactly like the girls' father and Emma is just like their mother. (No hint is given as to how much of a physical resemblance there is.)
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** Though the mispronunciation of the Italian phrase may be a mistake on the publisher's part rather than the character's. The argument is that Mr. Elton would have corrected his wife at the first opportunity after her misusing the phrase and that she would have been too embarrassed to use the correct pronunciation.
* [[Green Eyed Epiphany]]: Spurs Emma's [[Love Epiphany]].
* [[Green
** {{spoiler|When Harriet confides to Emma that she is in love with Mr. Knightley, it causes Emma realize her own feelings for him.}}
* [[Hair of Gold]]: Harriet, along with big [[Blue Eyes]].
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** She also deserves credit for being so patient and considerate to her father. He's a good person, but he can, inadvertedly, be very trying.
** John Knightley is this, too. He can be snarky and short-tempered with Mr. Woodhouse, but well, Mr Woodhouse IS annoying and John's very obvious love for his family (and his big-brotherly care of Emma) makes up for a lot.
* [[Last
* {{spoiler|[[Like Brother and Sister]]: You can actually ''hear'' Mr. Knightley's heart break when Emma says this as they're about to dance.}}
** {{spoiler|More accurately, what she says is that they're ''not'' close enough to being brother and sister to make it improper for them to dance, and he agrees wholeheartedly. The heartache is still easy to catch, though, if you look for it.}}
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* [[The Matchmaker]]: Emma obviously, though her only known success story is the Westons. Mrs. Weston also tries her hand with no more success.
* [[Matchmaker Crush]]: The result of Emma's matchmaking of Mr. Elton and Harriet is Mr. Elton falling for Emma.
* {{spoiler|[[May
* [[Meaningful Name]]: Well, he's not called Mr. [[Knight in Shining Armor|Knight]]ley for nothing.
* [[The Minnesota Fats]]: Jane, to Emma.
* [[Missing Mom]]: Mrs. Woodhouse died when Emma was very little.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: Emma, close to the end of the book, realises she was basically wrong about everything and other people had paid for it (see page quote). Moreover, her [[Green Eyed Epiphany]] is stimulated by a girl whom ''she'' has encouraged in the first place, making this a [[My God, What Have I Done?|"Oh God! that I had never seen her"]] case.
* [[Mystery Literature]]: Several readers, including BBC producer Sue Birtwistle and mystery novelist P. D. James, have argued that ''Emma'' is one of the first of these to exist, given the way Austen plants clues about relationships and plot resolution all throughout.
* [[No Antagonist]]
* [[No Hugging, No Kissing]]: {{spoiler|The hottest scene in the book occurs when Mr. Knightley ''almost'' kisses Emma's hand.}}
* [[Non
* [[Oblivious to Love]]: {{spoiler|Emma is oblivious to Mr. Knightley's feelings for her and her own feelings for him until (she believes) it might be too late.}}
* [[Odd Friendship]]: Emma and Harriet.
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* [[Walls of Text]]: A lot of Miss Bates' dialogue.
* [[What Beautiful Eyes|What Beautiful]] [[Blue Eyes]]: Harriet
* [[What the Hell, Hero?]]: Mr. Knightley to Emma, especially after her manipulation of Harriet and her rudeness to Miss Bates.
* [[Wrong Genre Savvy]]: Subtly done with Emma. She encourages Harriet in her reading of ''The Romance of the Forest'', a Gothic novel by Ann Radcliffe which stars a girl of obscure origins who is ultimately revealed to be Nobly Born. Emma clearly thinks Harriet belongs in a similar story, when in actuality {{spoiler|Harriet is the bastard of a tradesman, who leaves her quite comfortably off economically but does nothing to raise her social status}}.
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