What is an oxymoron?
A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist.
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An oxymoron is a phrase in which the parts are contradictory or incongruous in one of several ways. Some examples include vegetarian meatball, jumbo shrimp, and pretty ugly. ChaCha!
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An oxymoron (from the Greek , "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines normally contradicting terms. They appear in a variety of contexts, including inadvertent errors such as "extremely average", or deliberate puns, such as "same difference" or "pretty ugly". The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination of two words. ChaCha On!
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An 'oxymoron' is a figure of speech that combines normally contradicting terms. Examples: pretty ugly, jumbo shrimp, and civil war. Thanks, ChaCha on!
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An oxymoron is a noun meaning, conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence'). Thanks for using ChaCha.
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An oxymoron (plural oxymorons, or sometimes the Greek plural oxymora) (from Greek ????????, "sharp dull") is a figure of speech that combines normally
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