The answer is A.
Shakespeare's plays are a great example of this, his plays being famous for containing the iambic pentameter.
C because a has 2 parts, b has because making dependent sentence, d is whatever it is (I forgot) but the answer is C
Answer:
Because it had not rained for several months, there was a ...shortage................... of water.
An oxymoron is contradicting words (deafening silence, jumbo shrimp, etc), a paradox is contradicting ideas (I must be cruel to be kind)