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an overblown statement, e.g. I had thousands of guests this weekend.
a figure of speech used to compare two unlike things without using the words like or as, e.g. He...
the plain, straightforward meaning, derived from a literal interpretation of the text; not the...
words, including relative pronouns, that link a less important clause to a main clause. Most...
see conversational register.
a paragraph in which the topic sentence is situated at the beginning of the paragraph.