Answer:
Oxymoron:
1: O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!
Paradoxes:
2: What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.
3: I can resist anything but temptation.
4: How is it possible to have a civil war?
Explanation:
Oxymoron:
It is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
e.g Fully empty, living death, O loving hate.
Based on this definition only "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" falls under the category of Oxymoron.
Paradox: It is similar to oxymoron, but it is usually a statement with logically contradictory statements which on investigation may or may not be logically true.
e.g "Everything I say is lie" , Barber Paradox: "A male barber shaves all and only those men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself?"
As we can find out there are no contradictory terms/words, but the statements which may contradict each other.
Based on the above, we conclude that sentence 2, 3 and 4 are Paradoxes.
Katniss finally realized she has “a kind of POWER”she never knew she possessed, which gives her an inner strength
Hope it Helps :)
I believe Mark Twain is satirizing 'the long list of names required to address certain nobles' in this excerpt. Because, there is no mention of balls and dinner parties, or the importance of the Americans/British, or their eccentric attitudes, therefore, the first option is the correct one.
The story is about a young character dealing with the difficulties of: a postapocalyptic environment.
The rising action is a series of conflicts that the narrator faces when he: travels to find Place of the Gods.
The climax of the story is when the narrator is in the apartment and realizes that: the gods were people.
The resolution of the story occurs when the narrator returns to the Hill People and decides: to rebuild society, slowly, and carefully.
That's the plot of the short story "By the Waters of Babylon". John, the main character, lives in a postapocalyptic world. He's the son of a priest and has dreams about the Place of the Gods, which is revealed to be New York. John gets his father's permission to travel to the Place of the Gods, where he realizes the beings they believed to be Gods were actually men, whose technology was used to bring their own destruction.
