Choose the best alternative in relation to Musk’s description used in the following sentence: “The standoff is the latest clash between authorities around the world and Musk — a self-declared ‘free speech absolutist’ who has relaxed X’s content moderation policies and reinstated a number of previously blocked accounts after buying the company, formerly known as Twitter, in 2022”.

(A) antithesis and metaphor
(B) pleonasm and paradox
(C) euphemism and paradox
(D) metaphor and euphemism
(E) paradox and metaphor