Identify the action verb marco ran his best race yet

Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

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What belief system was john brown following when he said it was "god's will" that he use violence to end slavery? pilgrim christian puritan quaker