ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -An oxymoron is a figure of speech that combines contradictory words with opposing meanings, like “old news, ” “deafening silence, ” or “organized chaos.” Oxymorons may seem illogical at first, but in context they usually make sense.

Detailed explanation-2: -Oxymorons like “seriously funny, ” “original copy, ” “plastic glasses, ” and “clearly confused” juxtapose opposing words next to one another, but their ability to make sense despite their opposing forces adds wit to writing.

Detailed explanation-3: -An oxymoron is a self-contradicting word or group of words (as in Shakespeare’s line from Romeo and Juliet, “Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate!"). A paradox is a statement or argument that seems to be contradictory or to go against common sense, but that is yet perhaps still true-for example, “less is more."

Detailed explanation-4: -idiom. : to say or do something that is opposite or very different in meaning to something else that one said or did earlier. The witness contradicted herself when she insisted she could identify the thief even though she had said that the night was too foggy to see clearly.

Detailed explanation-5: -The term oxymoron is first recorded as Latinized Greek oxymōrum, in Maurus Servius Honoratus (c. AD 400); it is derived from the Greek word oksús “sharp, keen, pointed” and mōros “dull, stupid, foolish"; as it were, “sharp-dull", “keenly stupid", or “pointedly foolish".