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    What is an oxymoron?

    Question #77969. Asked by bratpack1014. (Mar 28 07 4:57 PM)


    24and48fan

    		An oxymoron is a figure of speech that mixes two usually contradictory terms.




    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxymoron

    Mar 28 07, 4:59 PM
    o_so_smart

    		An oxymoron is specifically a two word paradoxical phrase that creates a new concept from the combination of the two words involved. An example of this would be "deafening silence" or "darkness visible."

    Mar 28 07, 8:17 PM
    elfirrepins

    		In other words, it is two words of opposite or different meanings used with each other. Is that what an oxymoron is? And here I thought it was a moron selling oxygen.

    Mar 28 07, 10:03 PM

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