<span>That praises are without reason lavished on the dead, and that the honours due only to excellence are paid to antiquity, is a complaint likely to be always continued by those, who, being able to add nothing to truth, hope for eminence from the heresies of paradox; or those, who, being forced by disappointment upon consolatory expedients, are willing to hope from posterity what the present age refuses, and flatter themselves that the regard which is yet denied by envy, will be at last bestowed by time.</span>
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The correct answer for the given question above would be option 4. Based on the given lines above as spoken by Antigone, the theme that these lines reveal is FAMILIAL LOYALTY. Hope this is the answer that you are looking for.
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an oxymoron is a figure of speech in which opposite terms appear
