How does the oxymoron "controlled chaos" affect the meaning of this sentence? she sat back and put her feet up, grateful to relax after the controlled chaos of her day as a kindergarten teacher. 1|the oxymoron means that the teacher doesn’t like her job. 2|the oxymoron explains that a kindergarten teacher has to do multiple, unrelated tasks at the same time. 3|the oxymoron is a polite way to say that the teacher is not good at managing her classroom. 4|the oxymoron explain why all kindergarten children misbehave in school. what effect does the metaphor have in this sentence? the midwestern town was an outpost of northeastern radical thought, defended by shots from the town’s newspapers and reinforced by regiments of campaigners for abolition and women’s rights. 1|the metaphor suggests that residents cared more about politics than about their family lives. 2|the metaphor emphasizes the aggressive nature of politics in the town. 3|the metaphor clarifies that people from another region had taken over the town. 4|the metaphor shows that the citizens were organized into an armed force.