Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0635 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Oxymoron
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The idea
An oxymoron yokes two contradictory words together, as in bitter-sweet or living death. The glossary has no headword for it, so this is the standard sense. An oxymoron is a paradox compressed to a phrase, which is the distinction a question would test.
In practice
Two contradictory words, yoked.
Where people slip
The glossary omits this term.
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