<span>Richie had felt a mad, exhilarating kind of energy growing in the room. . . . He thought he recognized the feeling from his childhood, when he felt it everyday and had come to take it merely as a matter of course. He supposed that, if he had ever thought about that deep-running aquifer of energy as a kid (he could not recall that he ever had), he would have simply dismissed it as a fact of life, something that would always be there, like the color of his eyes . . . .
Well, that hadn't turned out to be true. The energy you drew on so extravagantly when you were a kid, the energy you thought would never exhaust itself—that slipped away somewhere between eighteen and twenty-four, to be replaced by something much duller . . . purpose, maybe, or goals . . . .
Source: King, Stephen. It. New York: Penguin, 1987. Print.</span>
The answer is: [C]: oxymoron .
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"A poetic device that consists of two opposite terms used together for <u></u> <u /><u>EFFECT</u> is <u> oxymoron </u><u />."
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Answer:
if you want ... to succeed .. in your profession,you ...must work... hard.
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The word truth is a(n) obvious and accepted fact.