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# Oxymoron, Hyperbole, Understatement

> Oxymoron Oxymoron is a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-...

**Oxymoron**

***Oxymoron*** is a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”

![Oxymoron, Hyperbole, Understatement](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/kulumbenova/3GZVd2jAmOdEG4XiUayM8dN5w689Q3.jpg)

**Examples:**

"The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."

(attributed to W.C. Fields)

- "The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep."(attributed to W.C. Fields)

- "That building is a little bit big and pretty ugly." (attributed to James Thurber)

- "I want to die young at a ripe old age."

- (Ashley Montagu, quoted by Mardy Grothe in Oxymoronica, HarperCollins, 2004)

- "I want to die young at a ripe old age." (Ashley Montagu, quoted by Mardy Grothe in Oxymoronica, HarperCollins, 2004)

**Hyperbole**

***Hyperbole ***is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect; an extravagant statement.

![Oxymoron, Hyperbole, Understatement](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/kulumbenova/7Myq5z4e6RWKwX8Iy6WROURERU0hHC.jpg)

![Oxymoron, Hyperbole, Understatement](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/kulumbenova/oW5CXUY3wks9BT350G4SKj21UTkUBp.jpg)

**Examples:**

- “I’ve told you a million times”

- “It was so cold, I saw polar bears wearing jackets”

- I am so hungry I could eat a horse.

- I have a million things to do.

- This car goes faster than the speed of light.

**Understatement**

***Understatement *** is an expressing with restraint or lack of emphasis, usually used for an ironic' or rhetorical effect.

![Oxymoron, Hyperbole, Understatement](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/kulumbenova/kss5uY7G0YDhgEj0ti1oG4d7QqxZtu.jpg)

**Examples:**

- Saying "We've had a little rain," when the neighborhood is flooded.

- "The desert is sometimes dry and sandy" - While describing the driest desert in the world.

- "Mumbai is not the cheapest place in the world" - instead of saying Mumbai is expensive.

- "It is just a little cool today" - when the temperature outside is 5° below zero.

http://fos.iloveindia.com/understatment-examples.html

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=understatement

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples-of-hyperboles.html

http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/hyperboleterm.htm

http://examples.yourdictionary.com/examples/examples-of-oxymorons.html

http://grammar.about.com/od/mo/g/oxymoronterm.htm

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/oxymoron

 

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