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* ''[[conservative]] professor'' - the process of obtaining a PhD and professorship is so politicized that [[liberals]] simply exclude conservatives

* ''[[conservative]] professor'' - the process of obtaining a PhD and professorship is so politicized that [[liberals]] simply exclude conservatives

* ''illegal law'' - a law that violates the [[Constitution]], for example.

* ''illegal law'' - a law that violates the [[Constitution]], for example.

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:''

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:''