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➡ What is the difference between an ${\bf {Oxymoron}}$ and an ${\bf{Antithesis}}$ ​

Answer 1

$\bf oxymoron$

• An oxymoron is a phrase that uses two contradictory or opposing terms, An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. A more general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the OED for 1902

$\bf \: antithesis$

• while an antithesis is a device that presents two contrasting ideas in a sentence (but not in the same phrase).Antithesis can be defined as "a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. Parallelism of expression serves to emphasize opposition of ideas". An antithesis must always contain two ideas within one statement.

Answer 2

An oxymoron is a rhetorical device that uses an ostensible self-contradiction to illustrate a rhetorical point or to reveal a paradox. A more general meaning of "contradiction in terms" is recorded by the OED for 1902.

Antithesis, which literally means “opposite,” is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect. Antithesis emphasizes the idea of contrast by parallel structures of the contrasted phrases or clauses.

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