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Read this excerpt from Great Expectations.

In a most irritating manner he instantly slapped his hands against one another, daintily flung one of his legs up behind him, pulled my hair,
slapped his hands again, dipped his head, and butted it into my stomach.

The underlined portion is an example of a "Dickensian" literary device known as

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