Figures Of Speech : Oxymoron with Examples

Oxymoron (विरोधाभास)

इस अलंकार में एक ही वस्तु में  दो परस्पर विरोधी गुणों को दिखाया जाता है। 

In Oxymoron, two conflicting qualities are shown in the same object.

Examples :

a) Life is bitter sweet.

b) She is regularly irregular.

c) It is an open secret.

d) A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.

e) I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

f) Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.

g) He was feeling sweet pain.

h) I was the wisest fool.

Figures of speech (अलंकार)

Simile (उपमा)

Metaphor (रूपक)

Personification (मानवीयकरण)

Apostrophe (सम्बोधन)

Oxymoron (विरोधाभास)

Hyperbole (अतिशयोक्ति)

Onomatopoeia (ध्वनि-सूचक)