Question

Are the following sentences either paradox, parallelism, oxymoron, or juxtaposition.
1. "She liked to be with people, but her lifestyle tore her away from them."
2. “Today was the day that Whitman students both dreaded and anticipated with glee.”
3. "The marvelously anarchic institution of childhood..."
4. “Somewhere along the way to losing leisure and dismissing summer, this country lost childhood, too.”

Answer 1

Have you checked the definitions of these words?

Here's a start:

http://www.google.com/#q=paradox

Answer 2

Yes I have checked the definitions from multiple sites but I am still weary about what terms go with what sentences