The meaning of the oxymoron in the above sentence is:
A. Helen did not want to face the sad news she received.
Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two words which contradict each other occur in a line. The purpose of using this literary device is to dramatize the situation. They add wittiness and symbolism in the sentence.
In the above sentence, the word 'wide' and 'shut' are the examples of Oxymoron words. After listening to the tragic news, Helen's reaction to her husband's death has been described with the use of oxymoronic words. tomorrow
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Can you clarify which story please and thank you
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The correct answer is bank vaults as stated in Alan Weisman's book <em>"The world without us"</em> when he tries to depict the New York city scenery long after humans have disappeared from the earth. The reason why this would most likely happen is that quite a few of this Bank Vaults were made out of steel reinforced concrete, making them technically indestructible, unlike, for example, museum vaults, which are built to preserve with climate control rather than to protect, therefore using softer materials.
Answer: To show how anyone can figure skate
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Ginsberg most likely makes this allusion to García Lorca to show his respect for Lorca for being an unconventional poet.
Ginsberg admired Lorca and mentioned him in his poem. Lorca was killed in the Spanish Civil War by the right wing Nationalists because he had leftist ideas as well as Ginsberg did. Ginsberg and Lorca admired Walt Whitman. The latter wrote <em>Ode to Walt Whitman</em>. They were both, Lorca and Whitman unconventional poets who disregarded poetical rules and structures, and praised free expression of thoughts and feelings. Lorca and Whitman, both promoted sexual freedom through veiled references in their poems.
