The vicious divorce of the socialites Ida and Beale Farange ends in a split-custody agreement over their daughter, Maisie. Maisie begins with her father, Beale, but struggles to adjust to life as a ch

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In contrast to the strictly grammatical view of parallelism, in rhetoric and literature parallelism can do much more than just create a pleasing and grammatical sentence structure.

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The characters of nearly every story—whether in literature, film, or any other narrative—have some characterization. Here are some examples of different types of characterization.

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