"O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!" is an example of simile oxymoron metaphor hyperbole

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"O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!" is an example of

simile

oxymoron

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hyperbole

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That is an "oxymoron."

Sultan Shakir answered Jun 25, 2017

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