How to create a movie clip during runtime?

I'm learning basic shooter games and my goal is to have a small circle movie clip (would it work as a movie clip?) spawn when the mouse button is pressed. I know how to add the code for the button being pressed, but I do not know how to create the object on demand. Can you please help me with this?

For AS2, you right click the movieclip symbol in the library and select the Linkage... option. In the panel that appears you select the first option (Export for Actionscript) and another is automatically selected. Then you assign an Identifier for it in the field at the top. To add that movieclip to the stage you use the attachMovie() method... for example...
this.attachMovie("linkageIdentifier", "instanceName", this.getNextHighestDepth());
In AS3 it is somewhat similar as far as assigning an Identifier, except you assign a Class name instead, and then add a new item to the stage as a new instance of the class...
var instanceName:ClassIdentifier = new ClassIdentifier();

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