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an overblown statement, e.g. I had thousands of guests this weekend.
a story, poem or fable in which characters and events represent something else, e.g. Animal Farm...
(also called an Italian sonnet) a sonnet consisting of an octave (eight-line stanza) and a...
a female character in a literary work, often the protagonist, that is admired or identified with...
when a character in a play expresses thoughts which the audience hears, but which the other...
a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things without using the words like or as, e.g. He...