Question

identify oxymoron in each of the following.
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2. I need a cold ice cream cone.
Let's go get a quick lunch.
How could you increase the problem?
That's a fine mess you've got yourself into.
3. . I feel as though I've been buried alive in paperwork.
• I feel as though I've a bee in my
bonnet.
I feel as though I'm as hungry as a horse.
I feel as though I've met my match.
4. It's a happy medium
It's a sunny morning.
It's a calculated risk.
It's a great choice.
5. • Eat
your
broccoli
Play the field.
Agree to disagree
Hide and seek.​

Answer 1

Answer:

hi guys

what are you doing

Answer 2

Answer:

That's a fine mess you've got yourself into.

I feel as though I've been buried alive in paperwork.

It's a calculated risk.

Agree to disagree.

We have to choose the sentence that constitute an oxymoron figure of speech.

Explanation:

• Primarily, the figure of speech 'oxymoron' includes a phrase that is made by two contrasting words.
• Oxymoron comprises of two contradictory terms.
• Example: A deafening silence.
• In the first part, 'fine' means 'satisfactory or acceptable' while 'mess' implies 'the state of having problems or troubles'. Apparently, these are opposite terms so, it an oxymoron.
• In the second part, we bury someone when he/she dies and a person who is living and breathing cannot be buried. That is why, 'buried alive' is an oxymoron.
• In the third part, risk is always unpredictable it can never be calculated beforehand. Thus, 'calculated risk' is an oxymoron.
• In the last part, 'agree to disagree' is the oxymoron because we cannot accept or agree to anything only to be disagreed.

Hence, the oxymoron are: Fine mess, buried alive, calculated risk and agree to disagree.