The expression "cold fire" is an example of :
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Answer: D
"Cold fire" is an example of Oxymoron.
An oxymoron joins two contradictory terms for effect: fire is hot, so 'cold fire' is a deliberate paradox in two words. Romeo's speech in Act I of Romeo and Juliet piles them up: 'cold fire, sick health, still-waking sleep'.
A metaphor describes one thing as another, metonymy substitutes something closely associated ('the Crown' for the monarch), and hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration. None depends, as here, on the clash of opposites.
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