Oxymoron
An Oxymoron is a seeming contradiction in two words put together An oxymoron is a poetic device which places together two words which have opposite meanings: for example, cold heat, naughty angel, beautiful noise.


Find examples of oxymorons in the following poem:

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Notice the combination of contradictory terms, such as used by Romeo in Act 1, scene 1 of Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet:"

Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity;
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!