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Oxymoron

Oxymoron. Bringing two contradictory words together. " O brawling love! O loving hate! . . . O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health! Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is !”. Oxymoron. Bittersweet

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Oxymoron

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  1. Oxymoron Bringing two contradictory words together "O brawling love! O loving hate! . . .O heavy lightness! serious vanity!Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!”

  2. Oxymoron Bittersweet Icy hot Jumbo shrimp Exact estimate Bright ___________ Truly ____________ Completely ______________ Large _________ Pretty __________

  3. Paradox *an extended oxymoron *a paradox pits contradictory ideas against one another so that a statement first appears to be untrue, but actually expresses a truth. “Good men must not obey the laws too well.” – Emerson Less is more. “My only love, sprung from my only hate.” - Shakespeare

  4. Paradox Create a paradoxical statement of your own to describe the nature of ONE of the following: *school *friendship *pets *family *movies *love

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