Education English | Oxymoron | Wren and Martin (1979:491) state that oxymoron is two contradictory qualities are predicted at once of the same thing. The examples of oxymoron according to Wren and Martin, they are:
a. She accepted it as the kind cruelty of surgeon‟s knife
b. So innocent-arch, so cunningly simple
Meanwhile, according to Etherton (1973:203), oxymoron is the use of two contrasting ideas or words to create a rather starling effect or unusual. It is special form of antithesis. Other examples of oxymoron are:
a. His air was one of friendly hostility.
b. He played in a crudely skilful sort of way.
c. It is bittersweet memories.
The phrase „bittersweet‟ in the sentence “It is bittersweet memories” is a phrase that has opposite words, bitter and sweet. The next example is “His air was one of friendly hostility”. The phrase friendly hostility is contrasting words.
a. She accepted it as the kind cruelty of surgeon‟s knife
b. So innocent-arch, so cunningly simple
Meanwhile, according to Etherton (1973:203), oxymoron is the use of two contrasting ideas or words to create a rather starling effect or unusual. It is special form of antithesis. Other examples of oxymoron are:
a. His air was one of friendly hostility.
b. He played in a crudely skilful sort of way.
c. It is bittersweet memories.
The phrase „bittersweet‟ in the sentence “It is bittersweet memories” is a phrase that has opposite words, bitter and sweet. The next example is “His air was one of friendly hostility”. The phrase friendly hostility is contrasting words.
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