What is an oxymoron? Don't give the answer from Google I want the answer in own words with an example.....
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oxymoron is a contradictory figure of speech.
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◾What is an Oxymoron ?
↪Well it's a poetic Device. It is used in poetry when two contrasting ideas are presented together .
↪An example will make the definition much clear . So ,
" All together changed and yet the same "
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[ Taken from " Voice of the Rain : Walt Whitman ]
In these lines two contradictions are put up , that is all together changed and yet the same . Hence an Oxymoron has been used in these lines .
Hope it's clear !!
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◾What is an Oxymoron ?
↪Well it's a poetic Device. It is used in poetry when two contrasting ideas are presented together .
↪An example will make the definition much clear . So ,
" All together changed and yet the same "
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[ Taken from " Voice of the Rain : Walt Whitman ]
In these lines two contradictions are put up , that is all together changed and yet the same . Hence an Oxymoron has been used in these lines .
Hope it's clear !!
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