Am I an oxymoron?

Question

My name is Invisible Bob, yet my avatar is bright, silly and clown like. Would I be an example of an oxymoron?

Answer 1

An oxymoron (plural "oxymora" or "oxymorons") (noun) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms (e.g. "deafening silence"). Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy ("sharp") and moros ("dull" or "dumb" ), which technically also make the word itself an oxymoron. Oxymora are a proper subset of the expressions called contradiction in terms. What distinguishes oxymora from other paradoxes and contradictions is that they are used intentionally, for rhetorical effect, and the contradiction is only apparent, as the combination of terms provides a novel expression of some concept.

The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective–noun combination. For example, the following line from Tennyson's Idylls of the King contains two oxymora:

"And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true""O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" John Donne, "Devotions on Emergent Occasions"
"I do here make humbly bold to present them with a short account of themselves... " Jonathan Swift
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, / With loads of learned lumber in his head..." Alexander Pope
"He was now sufficiently composed to order a funeral of modest magnificence..." Samuel Johnson
"O anything of nothing first create! / O heavy lightness, serious vanity! / Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms! / Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!" William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act 1, scene 1

Answer 2

IF you think you want to ba an example of an oxymoron then go for it.

Answer 3

no

an oxymoron would be...

The Dachau light opera, and bycicle touring company, or something, or not.

an oxymoron is things that when put together effectively cancel each other out.

Deafening Silence is about the easiest example i could give you...

Answer 4

Defination of Oxymoron
American Heritage® Dictionary: Description of oxymoron
NOUN: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. oxymoronic (-m-rnk) , oxymoronically, pl. oxymora (-môr, -mr) or oxymorons
Description of oxymoron
NOUN: A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in a deafening silence and a mournful optimist. oxymoronic (-m-rnk) , oxymoronically, pl. oxymora (-môr, -mr) or oxymorons

Answer 5

it could very well be an oxymoron. i never thought about it like that but yes it could

Answer 6

Well I'm not sure about the oxy part. . .nah, I'm just kidding, I guess if you wanted to look at it that way it could be considered an oxy moron.

Answer 7

You're 5/8ths correct.

Answer 8

You can be whatever/whoever you want as long as you believe you can.

Answer 9

who cares

Answer 10

Well, can't see much of your avatar......