Oxymoron

//__**Oxymoron**__//- [ok-si-mawr-on], noun,plural ox·y·mo·ra

An oxymoron is a figure of speech in which a combination of contradictory words are used in one sentence. An example of oxymora would be: ground pilot, astronomically small, controlled chaos, customer service jumbo shrimp, wonderfully horrid, etc. (LA) Floppy disc, all alone, pretty ugly, etc. (TM)

Some oxymora can become clichés. Such as: Irregular pattern, bitter sweet, silent scream, so close and yet so far. Used in a sentence: __//"This love is bittersweet; we love one another so much, but we're so far away from one another!"//__ __// "Look at that little giant!" (LA) //__



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