The correct answer is the following: <em>option A. The excerpt from "Romeo and Juliet" is an example of an oxymoron.</em> Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet" is filled with different types of figurative language examples. In Act I, Romeo uses an oxymoron when speaking to Benvolio upon learning that there has been another street fight. He says: "O any thing, of nothing first create". An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that use a self-contradiction to reveal a paradox. In the example, Shakespeare uses an oxymoron to show Romeo's confusion and frustration about the never ending feud between the families.
