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What is a perspective

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Your point of view

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What is assonance

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The repetition of similar vowel sounds

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What is bias

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The tendency to seek out and prefer information that supports our belifs

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What is allusion

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A figure of speech that makes a reference to a place, person or something that happened

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What is oxymoron

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Placing two opposite words together

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