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and the long-suffering farmer's wife.'"

Stock characters can be further identified as an alazon, the "impostor and self-deceiving braggart" in a story, or an eiron, a "self-derogatory and understating character".

American film

In American popular films, there are a wide range of stock characters, which are typically used as non-speaking extras in the background, bit parts with a

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