Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Oxymoron

Oedipus calls Teiresias the "blind seer."  This is an example of an oxymoron.  What is an oxymoron?  Give one example.

14 comments:

  1. An oxymoron is a figure of speech. Crule Kindness is an example an oxymoron.

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  2. when you explain something with two word that mean the complete opposite.

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  3. an oxymoron is a figure of speech

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  4. its a figure of speech combineing two opposite words

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  5. its like an expression that at the same time dosent make sense, hes not really a "seer" because you cant be blind and see at the same time, its like a metaphor in the sense that it says something without really directly saying it.

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  6. Teiresias is blind and Oedipus was making it seem like even though he is blind he can still see. snakes crawl

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  7. Example: pretty ugly. A term that contradicts itself.

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  8. it is a figure of speach. the sad man was said to be happy

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  9. Its a figure of speech. An example is awfully good

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