What is an oxymoran, is that a stupid ox? How you do know if an ox is stupid or smart?

Answer 1

an oxymoron is two words that go toghether where we understand it but if you think about it the words really contrast eachother.
an example of one is an emergency waiting room
emergency is you need help fast but you have to wait in the waiting room

Answer 2

An oxymoron is comparing two very different things.
Ex: the small giant
Ex: the tall midget

I don't know if an ox is stupid or smart.

Answer 3

An oxymoron (plural oxymora or, more commonly, oxymorons) (noun) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms.

Oxymoron is a Greek term derived from oxy ("sharp") and moros ("dull"). The meaning is "that which is sharp and dull," thereby designating and also exhibiting an opposition between two adjectives which serve as predicates for one subject.

Oxymorons are a proper subset of the expressions called contradictions 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, such as "cruel to be kind".

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"
Oxymorons can also be wooden irons or sideroxylons in that they are in violation of the Principle of contradiction which asserts that nothing can be thought if it contains contradictory characteristics, predicates, attributes, or qualities.

[edit] Deliberate use of oxymorons
"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

Popular oxymoron = pretty ugly,
a fine mess,
a little big,
definte maybe,
blinding light,
living dead,
mindless thinking

Do you get the point??

Answer 4

Oxymoron: two words of contradictory meaning are used together for special effect, e.g. "wise fool" or "legal murder"

Answer 5

jumbo shrimp
plastic glasses
pretty ugly
living dead
silent scream
Same Difference

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