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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:''

'''Oxymoron''' is a figure of speech in which two terms which are polar opposites are used together for [[rhetorical]] effect, or criticized because they are self-contradictory as in "[[pro-life]] [[Democrat]]."  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

* ''Harvard Divinity School''

* ''Harvard Divinity School''

* ''gay charity'' (the homosexual ideology is entirely selfish)

* ''gay charity'' (the homosexual ideology is entirely selfish)

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