The matching of the quotes is as follows:
"O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" – John Donne
This quote uses oxymoron, since it is using words that cancel each other out. These words being miserable abundance and begarly riches, together seem contradictory but it does describe correctly.
"What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young." – George Bernard Shaw
This one shows a paradox where it states that young people waste their youth. Makes you think about how a young person would waste their youth still being young.
"I can resist anything but temptation." – Oscar Wilde
This one shows paradox, since it is more than a couple of words, that are describing an action that is contradicting itself. In this case resisting anything but temptation.
"How is it possible to have a civil war?" – George Carlin
This one shows an o 2 oxymoron, since it consts of 2 words that are contradicting eachother. Making us ask ourselves, "How can there be a war that is civil?"
Answer:
3. change the pronoun "them" to the pronoun "him"
a man is speeding down the road, not men; therefore the pronoun should be singular not plural.
5. change "stops" to "stopped"
this sentence is written in past tense, so "stopped" would be used
Answer:
The British waited until they were sure the telegram provoked the US to enter the war.
Admiral William Hall knew that outrage was growing in America over Germany's announcement late in the day of January 31 that the German navy would resume unrestricted submarine warfare. Hall knew that the United States was close enter in the war, so Hall waited until February 24, thinking that Arthur Zimmermann telegram would make the U.S. join the Allied forces. He showed the telegram without revealing that the British deciphered the German codes.
Zimmermann –German Foreign Secretary- had sent a telegram to Count Von Bernstoff, the German ambassador in Washington, with the intention to convince Mexico to support Germany in the war.
Explanation:
a. describe the sounds effects
Situational irony, from the term itself, presents an ironic effect between the events that happened within the story. Based on "The Metamorphosis", the ones that display this kind of irony are options A and B. Gregor's father <span>uses an apple to wound him but this lead to his death instead. And, the external "blossoming" of Grete happened as she deteriorates internally.</span>
