Answer:
Oxymoron:
1: O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!
Paradoxes:
2: What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.
3: I can resist anything but temptation.
4: How is it possible to have a civil war?
Explanation:
Oxymoron:
It is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
e.g Fully empty, living death, O loving hate.
Based on this definition only "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" falls under the category of Oxymoron.
Paradox: It is similar to oxymoron, but it is usually a statement with logically contradictory statements which on investigation may or may not be logically true.
e.g "Everything I say is lie" , Barber Paradox: "A male barber shaves all and only those men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself?"
As we can find out there are no contradictory terms/words, but the statements which may contradict each other.
Based on the above, we conclude that sentence 2, 3 and 4 are Paradoxes.
Background information and state the opinion clearly
Answer:
McCarthyism was the general name of political actions, unscrupulous investigative methods and creating an atmosphere of fear and suspicion in the fight against the "internal communist threat" in the years from 1950 to 1954 in the United States by Senator Joseph McCarthy. He initiated a campaign to research the loyalty of employees of government administration, universities, the army and other public life institutions, and to counteract "communist infiltration" among these social groups.
These activities consisted in questioning people on a list drawn up on the basis of McCarthy's personal and usually unsubstantiated suspicions. In the case of refusal to cooperate, in the form of giving the names of other people suspected of supporting or having relationships with members of the Communist Party, their careers were violated. In the case of people employed in private enterprises, it consisted in sending reports to their employers, and in the case of government employees, issuing negative opinions about their admission to state secrets.
In this paragraph, a white puddle is a simile for snow. If the sentence where white puddle is mentioned is this one: Patches of old snow, scattered here and there, looked like white puddles.
