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* [[Spirited Young Lady]]: Anne.
* [[Strange Girl]]: Anne.
** Also, Elizabeth Grayson from ''Anne of the Island'' and, for a male version, Paul Irving, who first shows up in ''Anne of Avonlea''.
* [[Sweetie Graffiti]]: Avonlea school children chalk up "Take Notice" comments about who likes so-and-so on the schoolhouse wall.
* [[Tall, Dark and Handsome]]: Younger Anne's only requirements for her future husband.
* [[The Thing That Would Not Leave]]: Gilbert's cousin comes to visit in June in ''Anne of Ingleside'' and sticks around
* [[Thinks Like a Romance Novel]]: Younger Anne, to the extreme. Besides lending itself to some rather funny escapades, including the formation of a writing club specifically for writing their own sappy romance stories and the recreation of Tennyson's "The Lady of Shallot" that ended with a sunken dory in the middle of a pond, it's also part of the reason why Anne is oblivious to Gilbert's feelings for her. Her view of what love is and what it's supposed to feel like is so skewed by her overly romantic mind that she can't see that Gilbert is in love with her and that she has feelings for him. She thinks her ideal man should be like the men of her novels--tall, dark, and handsome--and thinks she found it in Roy Gardner. It's a rather big reality check when Anne realizes that romance novels are not anything like
* [[Tomboy and Girly Girl]]: Anne and Diana.
* [[Too Good for This Sinful Earth]]: {{spoiler|Walter}}
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** In the third movie adaptation (okay, not so much adaptation as total re-write...in the wrong time period), Anne and Gilbert share one as he goes off to war.
* [[Traumatic Haircut]]: Inverted; it's an ''improvement'' over Anne's [[My Hair Came Out Green|hideous green hair.]]
* [[Uncanny Family Resemblance]]: In ''Anne's House of Dreams'', Anne's neighbor is Leslie Moore, who, for ten years, has been acting as the caretaker of her formerly verbally abusive husband Dick, who nearly got his head beaten in during a sailing trip to Cuba and who suffered brain damage, causing him to act like a small child in a grown man's body. {{spoiler|Later, at Gilbert's insistence, he has a brain operation and recovers his memory--and turns out not to be Leslie's husband at all but her husband's cousin George. The book explains that the cousins were double cousins; their fathers were brothers and their mothers were identical twins. The cousins looked very much alike when they were younger--down to each of them having differently colored eyes, one blue, one green--but were easy enough to tell apart if they were seen together. Leslie had never met George Moore, however, and had only heard her husband mention him once. The book also admits that the presumed Dick Moore had changed a ''lot'' after his accident and didn't look much like either Dick ''or'' George used to, as well as the fact that Dick's old dog didn't recognize the false Richard when he came "home," growling at him.}}
* [[Unsuspectingly Soused]]: Diana drinks "three tumblerfulls" of what she ''thinks'' is raspberry cordial, but is actually currant wine. Marilla is quite disgusted by Diana's gluttony and [[Mama Bear|her mother's blaming everything on Anne regardless of this]].
* [[Victorian Novel Disease]]: {{spoiler|Ruby Gillis}}, one of Anne's childhood friends, in ''Island.'' It's explicitly consumption--"galloping consumption," to be specific.
* [[Victorious Childhood Friend]]: So much of this. Anne and Gilbert, Diana and Fred, Jem and Faith, Nan and Jerry...
* [[Wartime Wedding]]: Anne and Gilbert's wedding in the film ''Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story''.
* [[What Happened to the Mouse?]]?: Marilla
* [[When She Smiles]]: She wouldn't be a [[Genki Girl]] without being able to light up a room doing this. It's even lampshaded at a few points in the later stories, this being a point at which authors could still get away with it un-ironically.
* [[Wicked Stepmother]]: Invoked in ''Rainbow Valley''.
** Sort of. The Meredith children are afraid Rosemary will turn out to be this thanks to the warnings of Mary Vance, and are very relieved when it turns out to not be the case.
* [[Wide-Eyed Idealist]]: Anne, in the earlier books. She eventually outgrows it a little, but not entirely.
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