Oxymoron and usage

What type of figurative language is shown?
That freshly baked apple pie looks awfully good.

• hyperbole
• metaphor
• simile
• oxymoron

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Which of the following is an oxymoron?

• I feel as though I've been buried alive in paperwork.
• I feel as though I have a bee in my hat.
• I feel as though I'm as hungry as a horse
• I feel as though I've met my match.

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"It's a well known secret."

is an example of

• metaphor

• palindrome

• oxymoron

• hyperbole

• synecdoche

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Zombies are the dead men.

• not an oxymoron

• oxymoron

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Isaach was seriously funny.

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Fill in the blank with either example or nonexample.

The following is a ________ of oxymoron.

I'm so hungry, I could eat a horse.

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Act naturally

• Oxymoron
• Euphemism

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Brendon, give me the eighty dollars you owe me or pay for dinner, it’s the same difference.

Which two words are the oxymoron in the above sentence?

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Which of the following is NOT an Oxymoron?

• A beautiful lady

• crash landing

• pretty bad

• day dreams

Answer explanation

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When two words are put together that contradict each other; opposites.

• Couplet

• Oxymorons

• Imagery

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