Figures of Speech - Oxymoron Examples

 In this post, you are going to get complete information bout Oxymoron Figure of Speech with lots of examples.

Figures of Speech - Oxymoron Examples

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What is Oxymoron?

An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines incongruous or contradictory terms. The plural is oxymorons or oxymora. When points put across contradict with each other, they are called Oxymoron. Oxymorons create a good drama for the reader. The reader become more interesting when he cncounters Oxymoron in the stories.

For example "The Same Difference" is an oxymoron. Same as well as different. Dont you think these terms are opposing each other. When this kind of phrases are included it the stories or texts, they are quite puzzling however they increase the engagement of the reader. So, they prouce a great effect in the reading. Also, the reader stops and thinks about the meaning.

Oxymoron Examples:

An oximoron can be made of an adjective and a noun. We keep hearing lots of oxymorons in our daily. May be we do not realize that they are oxromorns.  A list of cooomon oxymorons is given below:

1. Dark light
2. Deafening silence
3. Living dead
4. Open secret
5. Virtual reality
6. Act naturally
7. Alone together
8. Amazingly awful
9. Bittersweet
10. Clearly confused
11. Dark light
12. Deafening silence
13. Definitely maybe
14. Farewell reception
15. Growing smaller
16. Jumbo shrimp
17. Only choice
18. Open secret
19. Original copy
20. Painfully beautiful
21. Passive aggressive
22. Random order
23. Small crowd
24. Sweet sorrow
25. True myth
26. Walking dead
27. Weirdly normal

Oxymorons can also be a combination of a noun and a verb.

• The silence whistles

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You can also encounter lots of oxymorons in normal quotes and sayings. 

Below are some very popular sayings and quotes that have Oxymorons in them. By reading these you can understand the impact of oxymorons in the sentences. 

1. "I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief." - Charles Lamb
2. "I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible." - Oscar Wilde
3. "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true." - Alfred Tennyson
4. "Modern dancing is so old fashioned." - Samuel Goldwyn
5. "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business." - Henry Ford
6. "I am a deeply superficial person." - Andy Warhol
7. "We're busy doing nothing." - Bing Crosby
8. "No one goes to that restaurant anymore. It's always too crowded." - Yogi Berra
9. "A joke is an extremely serious issue." - Winston Churchill
10. "I like humanity, but I loathe persons." - Edna St. Vincent Millay
11. "I generally advise persons never ever to present assistance." - P.G. Wodehouse

List of Figures of Speech in the English Language - Literary Devices
Accumulation	Climax	Metalepsis
Adjunction	Dysphemism	Metaphor
Adnomination	Ellipsis	Metonymy
Alliteration	Euphemism	Simile
Allusion	Epigram	Synecdoche
Anaphora	Epiphora (or epistrophe)	Tautology
Antanaclasis	Hyperbole	Understatement
Anticlimax	Hypophora	Zeugma and syllepsis
Antiphrasis	Irony	Onomatopoeia
Antithesis	Litotes
Apostrophe	Oxymoron
Assonance	Personification
Cataphora	Puns
Chiasmus	Merism

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