Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Post #3- Oxymoron

Definition- A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

Oxymoron is just another form of a paradox. Most commonly seen when two words contradict each other in a sentence. "War is Love" this is an example of oxymoron in the book 1984 . In a normal situation the two words would not go together because they basically mean the exact opposite.

I thought this was funny and a good image of  an oxymoron. (hope this was Photoshopped)

1 comment:

  1. Stephen I think something that worked really well about your post was the photo, I hope it was photoshopped too, it increased my understanding because it gave a real world example. An additional example would be jumbo shrimp

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