Oxymoron can be seen in the expression "alone together," as shown in the last answer option.
<h3>What is Oxymoron?</h3>
- It is a literary resource.
- Refers to the joining of two words with opposite meanings.
Oxymoron features two words of opposite meanings that point to the same idea and convey a harmonious meaning. An example of this is the words "alone together" have opposite meanings, but convey a single message.
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The answer is:
The animals <em><u>scrambled </u></em>to get into the barn as the lightning <em><u>struck</u></em>.
In the chosen sentence, both verbs in the different clauses are consistent ad accurate because they are written in the Past Simple tense.
The rest of the options are incorrect because the tense of the verbs is not related to each other: they wrongly combine past and present, and present and future tenses.
The right version of them are the following:
<em>Alexander </em><em>finished </em><em>his math test and </em><em>walked </em><em>to Mr. Smith's desk.
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Sampson and Raina </em><em>watch </em><em>the fireworks and </em><em>comment </em><em>on how beautiful they are.
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The police officer </em><em>rounded </em><em>the corner and pumped his arms harder.</em>
It's simile. It compares the dog to a bulldozer to make it more dramatic.