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OpenStudy (anonymous):

can someone explain in brief what an 'oxymoron' is..??

OpenStudy (anonymous):

use of compound and paradoxical words in a writing in a way that we can infer several meanings of that

OpenStudy (anonymous):

It is a combination of words that have a mutually exclusive meaning. An oxymoron is used in poetry and prose as a rhetoric figure. Bit it can also be involunterily and sometimes even enter common language: Think of the following examples: bittersweet loud silence virtual reality

OpenStudy (anonymous):

a phrase contradicts itself. alone together jumbo shrimp plastic glasses

OpenStudy (anonymous):

A contradiction. Pianoforte.

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