An oxymoron is a figure of speech created when two words with opposite meanings are written or spoken as a phrase, like jumbo shrimp.
I always think of an oxymoron as a literary example of when opposites attract. Here’s a list of nature-based oxymorons:
cloudy bright
numb feeling
ironwood
warm glacier
extinct life
former native
deafening silence
quiet scream
noiseless sound
pretty ugly
land development
industrial park
[...] words suburban wilderness form an oxymoron, a figure of speech which combines contractory or incongruous [...]
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