OXYMORON
Plural: OXYMORA
It’s used as one of the Figure’s of Speech. The word combines two contradictory words to give a new meaning to a sentence. It was used in the 16th- 17th century by the contemporary poets and especially by Shakespeare in his Romeo and Juliet. (Romeo utters it in a famous speech).
e.g, The deafening silence after the bomb blast in the city centre was unforgettable.
Here the two words “deafening” and “silence” are clear contradictions but it gives beauty and impact to the seriousness of the situation in the sentence which makes it easily understandable for the layman.
e.g, My wife’s new recipe was bittersweet.
It obviously means that the recipe cooked wasn’t that good.
It’s used as one of the Figure’s of Speech. The word combines two contradictory words to give a new meaning to a sentence. It was used in the 16th- 17th century by the contemporary poets and especially by Shakespeare in his Romeo and Juliet. (Romeo utters it in a famous speech).
e.g, The deafening silence after the bomb blast in the city centre was unforgettable.
Here the two words “deafening” and “silence” are clear contradictions but it gives beauty and impact to the seriousness of the situation in the sentence which makes it easily understandable for the layman.
e.g, My wife’s new recipe was bittersweet.
It obviously means that the recipe cooked wasn’t that good.
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