Question

some say the world will end in fire some say in ice

A. Alliteration and transferred epithet
B. Euphemism and climax
C. Anticlimax and smile
D. Alliteration and Antithesis​

Answer 1

The speaker considers the age-old question of whether the world will end in fire or in ice. This is similar to another age-old question: whether it would be preferable to freeze to death or burn to death. The speaker determines that either option would achieve its purpose sufficiently well.