Oxymoron by Catherine Weed https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk en-us 2016-12-05 17:59:14 UTC 2017-03-15 10:46:33 UTC hello@padlet.com A. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141828354 The word is oxymoron (\ˌäk-sē-ˈmȯr-ˌän\).]]> 2016-12-05 18:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141828354 B. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141835755 The line to be seated at Olive Garden was a short wait.]]> 2016-12-05 18:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141835755 C. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141836294 a combination of contradictory words (as cruel kindness).
link]]> 2016-12-05 18:24:39 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141836294 D. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141837457 link]]> 2016-12-05 18:27:52 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141837457 E. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141839024 Synonyms
  • rhetoric
  • allusion
  • exaggeration 
Antonyms
  • prolixity
  • reiteration
  • aphorism
]]> 2016-12-05 18:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141839024 F. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141841779 Me and my friend took a trip to Vermont with my family and one day we were hungry but didn't have the food we wanted in the house so we took a trip on the quad down the road to a store. To avoid the main road , we both took trails behind the house. On the way, we lost our trail and didn't know where we were going for a bit. We were alone, but alone together. We did find our way to the store eventually, then went back to the house.]]> 2016-12-05 18:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141841779 G. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141843623 She's the Man is a movie that explains the term, oxymoron. The title itself contradicts. It is combining a man and a woman. To make sense, it would say, she's the woman.]]> 2016-12-05 18:44:51 UTC https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141843623 H. weedcatherine https://padlet.com/weedcatherine/9vjyuncfosvk/wish/141847587 Since shrimp are never actually large, the oxymoron “jumbo shrimp” is pretty obvious.
  1. The word in this sentence is used to show how the words contradicts.
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