Упр.4c Уроки 1-2 Юнит 7 New Millennium English 11 класс

1. 4 C. Read the dictionary entry and say: What thing or place can be described with the phrase given as an example?

   Oxymoron [oksi’momn] — a deliberate combination of two words that mean the opposite of each other to get a new meaning, such as “ugly beauty.”

   Look at the table below and make up oxymoronic expressions.

Oxymoron is a deliberate combination of two words that mean the opposite of each other to create a new meaning, for example, ugly beauty.

Such a phrase can describe a thing or a place that combines contradictory features, for example:

• deafening silence — a very quiet place;
• bittersweet memory — a memory that is both pleasant and sad;
• living dead — a person or character who seems alive but is like dead.

Examples of oxymoronic expressions:

• sweet sorrow
• open secret
• pretty ugly
• silent scream
• jumbo shrimp