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a figure of speech such as alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia, that uses sound to create an effect. See alliteration, assonance and onomatopoeia.
When the object of the sentence is linked to the action expressed by the verb, e.g. The boy was...
there can be one or more sub-plots in any story. A sub-plot will often reveal something about...
a female character in a literary work, often the protagonist, that is admired or identified with...
(also called a newspaper report) a piece of writing about current news, that should be objective...
the letters added to the beginning of a root that change its meaning. The most common prefixes...