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oxymoron: Is a group of contradictory words placed as a pair in a sentence.
personification: This is the assignment of a human characteristic to a non-living thing.
Explanation:
An oxymoron in a sentence contains a set of contradictory words placed together in a sentence. For example in the sentence; <em>Driving is a necessary evil</em>, the pair of words necessary evil are contradictory because they seem to be the opposite of themselves.
Personification gives the attribute of humans to things that have no life in them. For example, in the sentence, <em>The sun smiled at him</em>, the sun is given the quality of a human which is, smile.
Where is the article or the reading so i can answer the question
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Explanation:
Find the subject. Who is doing something? Ricky. Ricky what? Ricky was. That is a complete sentence and it makes sense. Ricky going does not make sense. So, Ricky was. What does very unsteady describe? It describes how Ricky was. It describes the verb, making "very steady" an adverbial phrase. A prepositional phrase describes a noun. Nothing in this sentence describes Ricky. "Going" is a helping verb. Ricky was going. "Down the staircase backward," describes how Ricky was going, making it another adverbial phrase.
You didn't say what kind of phrase. I hope I helped.
The letter "g"
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