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Lesson Six Oxymoron An oxymoron (plural oxymora (Greek plural) or, more often, oxymorons) (sharply dull in Greek) is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from careless errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same difference, to literary oxymorons that have been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination. For example, the following line from Tennysons Idylls of the King contains two oxymorons: And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. Less oft