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Which phrase is an example of an oxymoron?

"Stones have been known to move and trees to speak" (from Macbeth by William Shakespeare)


"Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears" (from Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare)


"Now old desire doth in his death bed lie" (from Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)


"No light, but rather darkness visible" (from Paradise Lost by John Milton)

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Answer:"No light, but rather darkness visible" (from Paradise Lost by John Milton)

Step-by-step explanation:

Oxymoron is defined as a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

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