What are examples of oxymoron in the hound of the Baskervilles?

Answer 1

"You look like a general who's planning a battle with his chief of the staff."

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.

A steep curve of heath-clad land, an outlying spur of the moor, lay in front of us. On the summit, hard and clear like an equestrian statue upon its pedestal, was a mounted soldier, dark and stern, his rifle poised ready over his forearm.

Somewhere there, on that desolate plain, was lurking this fiendish man, hiding in a burrow like a wild beast, his heart full of malignancy against the whole race which had cast him out.

Baskerville shuddered as he looked up the long, dark drive to where the house glimmered like a ghost at the farther end.

Answer 2

Various metaphors are used in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Sherlock Homes and the Hound of the Baskervilles.' Holmes, in a conversation with Watson states, 'It may be that you are not yourself luminous, but you are a conductor of light.' This meant that although Watson might not be the person who solves cases, his presence, conversation, and observations can inspire another to solve the case.

Answer 3

"Beyond two copses of trees howled in the wind"

Answer 4

dime and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream

(simile)

this was at least a comrade for whom one might venture to take a risk

(metaphor)