What are 10 oxymorons?
10 Examples of Common Oxymorons
- “Small crowd”
- “Old news”
- “Open secret”
- “Living dead”
- “Deafening silence”
- “Only choice”
- “Pretty ugly”
- “Awfully good”
What is oxymoron and example?
An oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words (as in Shakespeare’s line from Romeo and Juliet, “Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!”). 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.”
Is oxymoron Greek or Latin?
The term is first recorded as Latinized Greek oxymōrum, in Maurus Servius Honoratus (c. AD 400); it is derived from the Greek ὀξύς oksús “sharp, keen, pointed” and μωρός mōros “dull, stupid, foolish”; as it were, “sharp-dull”, “keenly stupid”, or “pointedly foolish”.
What is oxymoron in English literature?
oxymoron, a word or group of words that is self-contradicting, as in bittersweet or plastic glass. Oxymorons are similar to such other devices as paradox and antithesis and are often used in poetry and other literature.
Who created oxymoron?
The word first showed up as an English word in 1657 in a book called The mysterie of rhetorique unvail’d where the editor, John Smith, defined oxymoron as “subtly foolish.”
What is another word for oxymoron?
What is another word for oxymoron?
| paradox | contradiction |
|---|---|
| absurdity | anomaly |
| enigma | incongruity |
| inconsistency | mystery |
| oddity | puzzle |
What is the difference between hyperbole and litotes?
Hyperbole is deliberate exaggeration to make a point. Litotes is deliberate understatement also to make a point. Litotes exaggerates in the other direction; it creates emphasis by under-describing something, usually by using a negative to assert a positive.
