“the chocolate is bitter sweet”
“you’re pretty ugly”
“I agree to disagree”
Have you ever heard when people saying “I agree to disagree”?
I am sure that you will think that sentence is quite unique and use contradictory terms together. what does it mean? you agree or disagree?
When you found a sentence which contradict each other, it’s called Oxymoron. According to Oxford Dictionary, Oxymoron is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction (e.g. faith unfaithful kept him falsely true). I personally see people use the oxymoron to call attention in their writing, when you read a novel or an article, then you found an oxymoron, you will go back and think why the author use that words. Am I right?
there are a lot of examples of Oxymoron such as:
- bitter sweet
- pretty ugly
- found missing
- alone together
- living dead
- original copy
at last, oxymoron is totally unique and seriously funny !
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