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when someone makes a broad statement based on a small amount of evidence, or applies a particular piece of evidence to a general situation, e.g. Look at the messy way that group of boys is eating their hamburgers! I can see they were brought up badly by families with no manners.
a thematic element that recurs throughout a literary text or film. In film a colour, form, shape...
a line of poetry with a pause at the end, sometimes signalled by a punctuation mark, e.g. The...
in film and literature: (also called atmosphere) referring to the emotion or atmosphere in a...
a style of writing and speaking that sensationalises events, e.g. As the blood-stained housewife...