Metaphors and Similes in Contemporary American Prose: D. Tartt’s Novel “The Goldfinch”
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2413-2349,2311-0155
DOI: 10.15330/jpnu.3.4.95-99