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Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
An oxymoron refers to a word, phrase, or use of language that seems to directly contradict itself, and it is believed to come from the Greek oxý (s), “sharp,” and mōrós, “dull.”
Isocolon: use of parallel structures of the same length in successive clauses. Internal rhyme: using two or more rhyming words in the same sentence. Litotes: an understatement achieved by negating the opposite statement, such as "not too bad" for "very good", or "she is not a beauty queen" for "she is ugly", yielding an ironical effect.
Zoom (stylized as ZOOM) is a half-hour educational television program, created almost entirely by children, that aired on PBS originally from January 9, 1972, to February 10, 1978, with reruns being shown until September 12, 1980.
Another study in the Payne Fund Studies aimed to investigate how children's behaviour and attitudes were shaped by all exposure to the movies. [5] They concluded that children who watched more movies on average performed worse in school work, were rated lower by their teachers, behaved less cooperatively, more deceptively, with less emotional ...
Space Ace (only used for Ace's spaceship "Star Pac", his motorcycle, and the tunnel in the game's dogfight sequence) Shaq Fu; Star Wars: Dark Forces (Only used for the animations of Darth Vader) Street Fighter III: 3rd Strike (Only used for the animations of the capoeira character Elena) The Banner Saga
A children's film, or family film, is a film genre that generally relates to children in the context of home and family. Children's films are made specifically for children and not necessarily for a general audience, while family films are made for a wider appeal with a general audience in mind.
In the television show Heroes, Micah Sanders is a computer hacker who is a child prodigy. [38] In the television show Criminal Minds, one of the main characters, the socially awkward Spencer Reid (played by Matthew Gray Gubler) is a former child prodigy who has an IQ of 187, an eidetic memory, and can read 20,000 words per minute. He graduated ...