allery"Cruel kindness" joins two opposite ideas and is an example of an:
ASimile
BOxymoron
CAlliteration
DMetaphor
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Oxymoron
1. An oxymoron joins words with opposite meanings.
2. "Cruel" and "kindness" contradict each other.
3. Examples include bittersweet and cruel kindness.
4. So the phrase is an oxymoron.
**Why not the others:** A simile uses "like", alliteration repeats initial sounds, and an idiom has a fixed non-literal meaning.
_Source: Wikipedia, "Oxymoron", section "introduction" (revision 1379928774)_
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