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21 November, 05:19

Read the following excerpt from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare.

Here's much to do with hate, but more with love.

Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!

O anything, of nothing first create!

O heavy lightness! serious vanity!

Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!

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

Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!

This love feel I, that feel no love in this.

Which figure of speech is the author using?

A. Simile

B. Hyperbole

C. Oxymoron

D. Personification

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  1. 21 November, 05:36
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    C. Oxymoron

    It's used when he writes "loving hate", "brawling love", "heavy lightness", and basically anything that contradicts itself.
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