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Which sentence contains an example of an oxymoron?

A. She ran up the steps like a gazelle and disappeared into the house.
B. There was a sharp softness to the accumulating thunderclouds.
C. The leaves danced about in the tree, happy the fall wind had set them free.
D. Her summer vacation went by in the blink of an eye.

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A oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction. In this case the oxymoron would be B. There was a sharp softness to the accumulating thunderclouds.