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FOR. Oxymorons:. Paradoxical Puzzles. Oxymoron. is a paradox usually reduced to two words A paradox is a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Here are some examples:. Oxymoron. Boxing Ring? Huh? The birth of an oxymoron!.

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  1. FOR Oxymorons: Paradoxical Puzzles

  2. Oxymoron is a paradox usually reduced to two words A paradox is a statement that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth. Here are some examples: Oxymoron Boxing Ring? Huh? The birth of an oxymoron!

  3. A Little Big…

  4. …Jumbo Shrimp

  5. Creating an Oxymoron Usually created either by using an adjective-noun ("eloquent silence") Or adverb-adjective ("inertly strong") relationship, Creating an Oxymoron

  6. Adjective-Noun • SweetTart

  7. Your Turn • Create an oxymoron using an adjective and a noun • Remember, the two words SHOULD contrast.

  8. Adverb-Adjective • SeriouslyFunny

  9. Your Turn • Create an oxymoron using an adverb and a adjective • Remember, the two words SHOULD contrast.

  10. Purpose An oxymoron can be used for effect, complexity, or emphasis of a point It can also be used for the purpose of wit and humor Purpose In this case the oxymoron is used for what purpose?

  11. Identifying Oxymoron • The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head . . . .--Alexander Pope • Can you identify the various paradoxes Pope uses in the above passage? • Can you identify the effect the oxymoron usage creates?

  12. Identifying Oxymoron • He was now sufficiently composed to order a funeral of modest magnificence--Samuel Johnson • Can you identify the oxymoron Johnson uses in the above passage? • Can you identify the effect the oxymoron usage creates?

  13. Purpose, Continued Oxymoron can be useful when things have gone contrary to expectation, belief, desire, or assertion. Oxymoron can also produce an ironic contrast which shows, in your view, how something has been misunderstood or mislabeled Purpose, Continued

  14. Identifying Oxymoron • I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief. --Charles Lamb • Can you identify the oxymoron Lamb uses in the above passage? • Can you identify the effect the oxymoron usage creates?

  15. Identifying Oxymoron • 'Here is much to do with hate, but more with love. Why then, O bawling love! O bawling hate! O anything! of nothing first create! O heavy lightness! serious vanity! Mis-shapen chaos and well seeming forms.' --William Shakespear, from Romeo and Juliet • Can you identify the oxymorons Shakespeare uses in the above passage? • Can you identify the effect the oxymoron usage creates?

  16. Other Examples Great Depression, free trade, peacekeeper missile, crash landing, sweet sorrow, student teacher, silent scream, taped live, alone together, good grief, tight slacks, living dead, near miss, light tanks, old news, hot chilli, criminal justice, peace force Other Examples

  17. Guess the Picture • Each slide will have an example of an oxymoron. • Try to guess what picture might accompany the slide. • See how close you can get to the actual picture!

  18. Living dead

  19. Sad Joy

  20. Wise Fool

  21. Visible Darkness

  22. Sublimely Bad,

  23. Effective Usage An oxymoron should preferably be yours uniquely; try to come up with contrast that give your reader an “ah ha” moment The device is most effective when the terms are not common opposites. Effective Usage Peace force? Hmm…

  24. Your Task • Create 10 effective, creative oxymorons • For each oxymoron you create, come up with an image that you could associate with your contrast • Create a poster from these images and oxymorons that reflects your understanding of the device Why are you wearing those tight slacks!?

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