oxymoron

Oxymorons 1.oxymoron Definition**Oxymorons** (or **oxymora**) are literary figures of speech usually composed of a pair of neighbouring contradictory words (often within a sentence). However this is not always the case. The //Webster Dictionary// defines **oxymoron** as "a combination of contradictory or incongruous words". Perhaps the most well-known of all **oxymorons** is **Jumbo Shrimp** (at least in the US; not in the UK where a **jumbo shrimp** is known as a **king prawn**). Jon Agee takes this as the title of his superbly illustrated [|book of oxymorons] //Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp?//, which is available through our online [|wordplay bookstore] – [|oxymoron section].
 * Oxymorons** can be used for dramatic effect, for example: **Hell's Angels** and **deafening silence**. They can also be comical, such as in **civil engineer**. Clearly this is not an oxymoron in the true and strict sense, but the suggestion that it is oxymoronic is humorous.

2.Here are some common examples of oxymoronic expressions: //act naturally, random order, original copy, conspicuous absence, found missing, alone together, criminal justice, old news, peace force, even odds, awful good, student teacher, deafening silence, definite possibility, definite maybe, terribly pleased, ill health, turn up missing, jumbo shrimp, loose tights, small crowd,// and //clearly misunderstood// //3.// [|contradicting]; gain saying or opposition.assertionof the contrary or opposite;denial.Or a statement or proposition that [|contradicts] or deniesan othe r or itsel f and is logically incongruous. oxymoron:a figure of speech by [|which] alocution produces anincongruos.

4. beacon light of hope flames of withering injustice. joyous daybreak long night of their captivity

crippled by the manacles of segregation and the chains island of poverty vast ocean of material prosperity; to cash a check to cash a check signing a promissory note to fall heir note defaulted on this promissory note

bad check; a check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

cash this check, a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and the security of justice.

dark and desolate valley of segregation

to the sunlit path of racial justice; quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood; sweltering summer of the Negro’s legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice who stand on the warm threshold which leads into the palace of justice. satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred [desert] state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice. hew out of the mountain of despair a stone of hope jangling discords of our nation into a beautiful symphony of brotherhood

Sources: world dictonary.edu

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