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Term Definition
Object

The entity affected by a verb — Simon bullied Trevor; I like football; The state controls the media.

Opposition

The phenomenon in language whereby two things are represented as opposite, either through antonymy or particular syntactic structures — Hot or cold; It was cheap talk, not thoughtful policies.