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In Peter Pan by J M Barrie, the protagonist never ages; this is a literary technique used in books such as The Famous Five where the characters experience time but do not age or experience more time than possible within an age (i.e. more school holidays than are possible in a year). What is this technique of not aging the characters called?

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