I have researched each term repeatedly and have a simple understanding of the meaning of each term, however, I am still not comfortable with my answers. 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.”
My Answers:
1. Juxtaposition
2. Juxtaposition
3. Oxymoron
4. Oxymoron