The author of "My Brother's Keeper" emphasizes Jaime's conflict by flashing back to earlier events with his brother Ted.
In "My Brother's Keeper", the author includes the line "and Jaime thought to himself, this time it must be bad" in Jamie's phone conversation with Ted in order to develop Ted as a character who often is in trouble.
A) Oxymoron and Hyperbole
The correct option is A.
In the passage given above, it can be seen that Dallow as the defence lawyer of these boys exaggerated and blamed all the circumstances surrounding the boys for their crime in order to manipulate the audience to believe that the situations surrounding them is the reason they behaved the way they did, otherwise they are normal children