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Formidable vs formative

In the years leading up to World War 2, the Japanese empire became a formidable force to be reckoned with. The unfair treatment of the Japanese by the Allied powers played a formative role in Japan’s imperialism.  The word...

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Simile vs metaphor

My favorite line from the novel ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ is where John Greene uses the word ‘stars’ as a metaphor for his thoughts. My favorite simile from the same novel is ‘gate shuffling like a dementia...

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