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The author has described the development of the justice system's understanding and treatment of juvenile offenders over time as pathetic. she opines that the understanding and treatment as unreasonable, inhumane and miserable, taking into account the evolution of the modern era and the current times of the human race
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D. metaphor
Taking into account that a metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable, in <u>this case Antony is not a limb of Caesa</u>r
