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palindromes & oxymorons

Palindromes are words, phrases or even numbers that can be read the same way, no matter the direction.

Some interesting palindromes are:

• Pop

• Noon

• Level

• Radar

• Eye

•Doom mood.

• Rise to vote sir.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses contradictory terms in conjunction, which means words that don’t appear to go well together.

Here are some interesting oxymorons:

•Almost exactly

•Alone together

•Clearly misunderstood

•Diet chocolate-cake

•Extinct Life

•Living dead

PALINDROMES

OXYMORON

Contributed by:

Sonika,8D