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Extractions: CLICK HERE FOR BEST PRICE CLICK HERE FOR BEST PRICE This program helps listeners expand their vocabulary by listening to nine four-act dramatizations and discussions of over 600 words with definitions of each. This program helps listeners expand their vocabulary by listening to nine four-act dramatizations and discussions of over 600 words with definitions of each.
Oxymorons (or Oxymora) > What Is An Oxymoron? Oxymorons (or oxymora) are literary figures of speech usually composed of a The word oxymoron (plural oxymora or oxymorons) is derived from the Greek http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_explain.html
Extractions: What is an Oxymoron? Subscribe E-mail Words Bookshop Link to this Site Take Our Survey ... Add to Favorites STOP ANNOYING POP-UPS with the FREE Alexa Toolbar (installs in seconds) Oxymorons (or oxymora ) are literary figures of speech usually composed of a pair of neighbouring contradictory words (often within a sentence). However this is not always the case. The Webster Dictionary defines oxymoron as "a combination of contradictory or incongruous words". Oxymorons can be used for dramatic effect, for example: Hell's Angels and deafening silence . They can also be comical, such as in civil engineer . Clearly this is not an oxymoron in the true and strict sense, but the suggestion that it is oxymoronic is humorous. Perhaps the most well-known of all oxymorons is Jumbo Shrimp (at least in the US; not in the UK where a jumbo shrimp is known as a king prawn ). Jon Agee takes this as the title of his superbly illustrated book of oxymorons Who Ordered the Jumbo Shrimp? , which is available through our online wordplay bookstore oxymoron section
Oxymorons (or Oxymora) > Types Of Oxymoron Punning can lurk even in singleword oxymora such as wholesome. What aboutevolving oxymora, word pairs that were once pleonasms but have, of late, http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_oxymoronology.html
Extractions: by Richard Lederer Not long ago, a couple I know tooled down to a local car emporium to look over the latest products. Attracted to the low sticker price on the basic model, they told the salesman that they were considering buying an unadorned automobile and had no inclination to purchase any of the long list of options affixed to the side window of the vehicle they were inspecting. "But you will have to pay $200 for the rear window wiper," the salesman explained. And the salesman said: "We want to keep the sticker price low, but every car comes with the rear window wiper, so you have to buy it. It's a mandatory option." Mandatory option is a telling example of the kind of push-me pull-you verbiage that pervades the language of business and politics these days. It is also a striking instance of an oxymoron Good grief!
Witticisms, Riddles it is riddled with contradictions. Ever noticed that it s simply impossibleto find seriously funny oxymora? The only choice is http://members.lycos.nl/bladel/languagefun/clever.htm
Extractions: A specialist is a person who knows a lot about little and goes on knowing more and more about less and less until finally he knows everything about nothing. A manager on the other hand, is a person who knows little about a lot and goes on knowing less and less about more and more until finally he knows nothing about everything . Heaven
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