Aga saga
noun
a novel about the lives of middle-class women living in British country villages
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Types of novel
airport fiction
noun
novels that are enjoyable and easy to read that you buy at an airport to read on your flight
epistolary
adjective
an epistolary novel consists of a series of letters written by the people in the story
whodunnit
noun
a book or film usually about a murder, in which you do not know who committed the murder until the end
vocal fry
a speech habit in which a speaker lowers their voice at the end of a sentence
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a type of cart pulled by a horse and used in the past for carrying barrels of beer
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conflict mineral
a mineral which is mined in a place where there is armed conflict, and sold to help pay for weapons
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