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# Oxymoron-Understatement-Hyperbole

> Oxymoron – (from Greek – “wittily foolish”) a figure of speech in which incongruous or seemingly con...

**Oxymoron** – (from Greek – “wittily foolish”) a [figure of speech](http://grammar.about.com/od/fh/g/figuresterms.htm) in which incongruous or seemingly contradictory terms appear side by side.

![Oxymoron-Understatement-Hyperbole](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/assel_91/1goOs8qlU3oc0biH648O6jX9g708vy.jpg)

![Oxymoron-Understatement-Hyperbole](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/assel_91/2n8H8K65b04mXIjITVHCx26HSa7Bzp.jpg)

![Oxymoron-Understatement-Hyperbole](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/assel_91/M37eHn3VyVgJRYAA247O538ek2t1SH.jpg)

**Oxymorons from Everyday Life**** **

- *Great Depression*

- *Cruel to be **kind*

- *Pain for pleasure*

- *Clearly confused*

- *Beautifully painful*

- *Original copy*

**Sentence Examples with Oxymorons**

*"I like a smuggler. He is the only honest thief." **- **[Charles Lamb](http://www.netvert.biz/wordpower/oxymoron1.html)** *

*"I am busy doing nothing."*

*"I am a deeply superficial person." - **[Andy Warhol](http://www.wordexplorations.com/oxymora-quotes.html)***

**Purpose of Oxymorons******

-Dramatic Effect

-Adding Flavor to Speech

-For Entertainment

**Understatement **– is when something is said that is far less than what is true.

![Oxymoron-Understatement-Hyperbole](https://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/assel_91/7LU3hQwRvHg2p2vrGYpQFmTC70gCus.jpg)

**Examples**

"It's a bit yellow" - while describing a very yellow canary.

"There is some music by Beethoven in his Ninth Symphony" - while describing Beethoven's famous work.

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

**Hyperbole –** (from Greek – “overshooting”) is an extreme exaggeration used to make a point. It is like the opposite of “understatement.”

![Oxymoron-Understatement-Hyperbole](http://storage.yvision.kz/images/user/assel_91/h2qt39Y0ULuM3wftC7D3SA4Vcu301m.png)

**Examples**

*“I’ve told you a million times”*

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

*“She is so dumb, she thinks Taco Bell is a Mexican phone company”*

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