" It (New York) has the poorest millionaires,
The littlest great men, the haughtiest beggars,
The plainest beauties, the lowest skyscrapers,
The dolefulest pleasures of any town I ever saw."
- O. Henry
An
oxymoron (plural oxymorons or, more rarely, oxymora) is a figure of
speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is a
loanword from Greek oxy ("sharp" or "pointed") and moros ("dull"). Thus
the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron. The most common form of
oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination ("deafening silence",
"open secret", "old news"). It can be used for either humorous or
polemical purposes. For instance, to claim that "honest politician" is
an oxymoron implies politicians are inherently dishonest.
矛盾修飾，是把兩個意思截然相反的詞放在一起，並始它們在對方中突出所要表達的意思，從而達到特殊的修辭效果的修辭手段。
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