8. an example of an oxymoron is a. “blackening wound” b. “stinking place” c. “rosy gloom” d. “unanswering heap”

An example of an oxymoron is

( C ) ""rosy gloom"

in the sonnet 116 written by william shakespeare we can analyze the symbolism and say that he reuses the idea of love like a guiding star for the sailor.

reading through the poem we find out that in the line 7 there is a metaphor for the lover that is heading through the life events by love itself .