Following questions are based on the various Figures of Speech.
Which of the following statements is not an example of Oxymoron?
Options
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.
Speech is silvern, but silence is golden.
She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.
Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.
Solution
She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.
Explanation:
Options Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more, Speech is silvern, but silence is golden and Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice are examples of antithesis. In antithesis, a striking contrast of words or sentiments is expressed in the same sentence. An oxymoron is a special form of antithesis, whereby two contradictory qualities are predicted at once of the same thing. Option c is an example of an oxymoron. “kind cruelty” contains two incongruous or contradictory words that are placed next to each other.
