what is oxymoron. explain
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Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which two opposite ideas are joined to create an effect. The common oxymoron phrase is a combination of an adjective proceeded by a noun with contrasting meanings, such as “cruel kindness,” or “living
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What is an oxymoron?
An oxymoron is a word or group of words that is self-contradicting, as in bittersweet or plastic glass. Oxymorons are often used in literature. One famous example abounding with oxymorons is the following speech by Romeo from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet:
◆Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
◆O any thing, of nothing first create!
◆O heavy lightness! serious vanity!
◆Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
◆Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!
◆Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
◆This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Oxymorons are similar to but distinct from the devices of paradox and antithesis. While an oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words, a paradox is a statement or argument that seems to be contradictory or to go against common sense, but that is yet perhaps still true—for example, "less is more." Antithesis, meanwhile, refers to the contrast of ideas through the use of parallel language, as in the phrase "action, not words," and in President Kennedy's famous injunction: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."