Question

Which lines in this excerpt from act I of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are examples of oxymoron?

A. Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still,

B. Where shall we dine? O me! What frat was here?

C. O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

D. Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

E. Dost thou not laugh?

F. At thy good hearts oppression.

(more than one answer can be chosen)

Answer 1

The answer is Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health

Answer 2

Which lines in this excerpt from act I of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet are examples of oxymoron?

Answers :

C.) O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!

D.) Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!

Explanation: An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that consists of using two concepts of opposite meaning in a single expression, that generates a third concept, an ostensible self-contradiction.

The word oxymoron is autological, i.e. it is itself an example of an oxymoron, because is derived from from the Greek ὀξύς oksús "pointed" and μωρός mōros "foolish"; as it were pointedly foolish.

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