Question

Read the excerpt from Act V, scene iii of Romeo and Juliet.

Friar Laurence: Stay not to question, for the watch is coming;
Come, go, good Juliet.—[Noise again.] I dare no longer stay.

Juliet: Go, get thee hence, for I will not away. [Exit FRIAR LAURENCE.]
What’s here? a cup, clos’d in my true love’s hand?
Poison, I see, hath been his timeless end.
O churl! drunk all, and left no friendly drop
To help me after! I will kiss thy lips;
Haply, some poison yet doth hang on them,
To make me die with a restorative. [Kisses him.]
Thy lips are warm!

First Watch: [Within.] Lead, boy: which way?

Juliet: Yea, noise? then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger! [Snatching ROMEO’S dagger.]

Which phrases from the passage are oxymorons? Select 2 options.

true love’s hand
happy dagger
good Juliet
lips are warm
timeless end

Answer 1

happy dagger

timeless end

Step-by-step explanation:

An Oxymoron is one of the figures of speech in which words of opposing meanings are placed beside each other. The words help in creating an effect in the meaning of the sentence. The words contradict in meaning and helps in presenting rhetorical effect in the sentences.

In the given excerpt, 'happy dagger' and 'timeless end' are the examples of oxymoron. 'Happy' is a positive term and 'dagger' is a negative term. 'Timeless' denotes the unlimited span of time while 'end' denotes the end of the time.