What is the effect of the contrast (oxymorons) in the following passage:



“Why then, O brawling love, O loving hate,

O anything of nothing first create,

O heavy lightness, serious vanity,

Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms,

Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health,

Still waking sleep, is that not what it is!”

Group of answer choices

to develop an extended metaphor

to demonstrate a static character

to foreshadow a tragic outcome

to express conflicting feelings