Read the excerpt from act ii, scene v of romeo and juliet. friar laurence: these violent delights have violent ends, and in their triumph die, like fire and powder, which, as they kiss consume: the sweetest honey is loathsome in his own deliciousness and in the taste confounds the appetite: therefore love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. which pair of words from the excerpt is an oxymoron? violent delights violent ends sweetest honey too swift

The pair of words from the excerpt that form an oxymoron is violent delights.

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that is mainly used in pieces of literature and consists in combinating contradictory ideas or incongruous elements. In that way, oxymoron creates a self-contradictory effect. In this case, "violent" and "delight", a word that is used to refer to something that pleases someone greatly, are contradictory. Shakespeare makes use of oxymoron in many of his plays besides Romeo and Juliet, such as Julius Caesar and Hamlet. Moreover, other examples of oxymoron are "dark light" and "upside-down".