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a widely held, but rigid, oversimplified and generalised idea, opinion or belief about a particular type of thing or person, such as gender, age, race, nationality, culture and sexual preference. It does not allow for individual difference, e.g. All Americans are loud. Men are better businesspeople than women. Old people are helpless.
(also called an Italian sonnet) a sonnet consisting of an octave (eight-line stanza) and a...
the plain, straightforward meaning, derived from a literal interpretation of the text; not the...
a horizontal movement of the camera to the left or right.
a circular chart used to compare categories as parts of a whole; useful for representing...
a punctuation mark used to show a pause in a sentence which is longer than a comma but shorter...