[Answer] 10. Let's say that you are listening to the news and hear that some Americans were killed by "friendly fire". Which of the following terms best describes "friendly fire"?

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...1. Oxymoron 2. Conjunction Junction ("What's Your Function?") 3. Homonym 4. Analogy Webster's Dictionary describes an oxymoron as "a rhetorical figure in which an epigrammatic effect is created by the conjunction of incongruous or contradictory terms". In other words, the adjective that describes the noun is completely contradictory to the meaning of that noun. In this example, "fire" means the discharge of weapons (usually bullets) and "friendly" denotes that it is not the weapons of the enemy. In other words, a soldier was accidentally killed by his own troops. However, I still fail to see what is friendly about that. It may not be hostile, but it isn't very friendly.

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Oxymoron:

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