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What is imagery?
What is the point of imagery?
How to recognize imagery
Examples of imagery
What is imagery?
Oprah Winfrey was born in the rural town of Kosciusko, Mississippi on January 29, 1954 as an only child to unmarried parents who soon separated, leaving her with her grandmother. At age 6, she went to live with her
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What is parallelism?
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What Are Literary Devices?
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