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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.
Because in those times, African Americans were rarely believed in court and he was afraid that even if he told to truth, he would be found guilty.
Answer:
1. To test the amount of knowledge retained by students in a certain period of time
2. To test teachers if they've been doing their job correctly, for example, if too many students have low grades it means the teacher most likely wasn't doing their job right
