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Misnomer | an incorrect or ill-fitting name |
Satire | a type of humor that attacks or makes fun of human faults or foolishness |
Satire | a work of literature that uses humor to attack or make fun of human faults or foolishness |
Personify | to show or regard something as having qualities of a living being |
Personify | to be a perfect example of something |
Syntax | the way words are put together to make phrases and sentences |
Hyperbole | an exaggeration |
Derive | to come from a source; to originate |
Derive | to get or obtain from a source |
Context | the part of a sentence that surrounds a word and helps to make its meaning clear |
Cliché | an overused expression |
Metaphor | a figure of speech in which a word or object is compared with another to show the similarity |
Oxymoron | an expression combining words that contradict each other |