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a story, poem or fable in which characters and events represent something else, e.g. Animal Farm (Orwell), which can be read as a straightforward story about animals, or as a story in which the animals and events represent characters and events of the Russian Revolution or unjust governments in general.
a figure of speech in which the writer deliberately makes something seem smaller or lesser (less...
writing designed to shock or create sensation. Journalism that uses this technique is called...
adverbs that are modified to show a relative degree of comparison. There are three degrees of...
(also called reported speech) what someone said or reported in the voice of the third person,...
agreement of verb with subject, e.g. I love hot dogs for lunch; agreement of pronoun with noun,...