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Cleopatra: Give me some music; music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.
Attendants. The music, ho!

[Enter Mardian]
Cleopatra: Let it alone; lets to billiards: come, Charmian.
Charmian: My arm is sore; best play with Mardian.
The passage mentions billiards which is a game that was not invented till centuries after Cleopatra's time. The passage contains an instance of

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allusion
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anachronism
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synecdoche
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hyperbole
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