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'''Oxymoron''' is a figure of speech in which two terms which are polar opposites are used together for rhetorical effect. In the past, rhetoric and elocution were standard school subjects and students were taught long lists of technical names of figures of speech and their meaning. ''Oxymoron'' was one of these, along with ''simile'', ''metaphor'', ''metonymy'', etc. True oxymoron is relatively rare; one well-known example occurs in Tennyson's ''Idylls of the King:''

An '''Oxymoron''' is a figure of speech in which two terms which are polar opposites are used together for rhetorical effect. In the past, rhetoric and elocution were standard school subjects and students were taught long lists of technical names of figures of speech and their meaning. ''Oxymoron'' was one of these, along with ''simile'', ''metaphor'', ''metonymy'', etc. True oxymoron is relatively rare; one well-known example occurs in Tennyson's ''Idylls of the King:''

:And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.<ref>[http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/idyllsking/lancelotelaine.html Lancelot and Elaine], Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King''</ref>

:And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.<ref>[http://whitewolf.newcastle.edu.au/words/authors/T/TennysonAlfred/verse/idyllsking/lancelotelaine.html Lancelot and Elaine], Tennyson, ''Idylls of the King''</ref>

Another occurs in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet," when Juliet tells Romeo

Another occurs in Shakespeare's ''Romeo and Juliet," when Juliet tells Romeo