Упр.4c Уроки 1-2 Юнит 7 New Millennium English 11 класс
Приведем выдержку из задания из учебника Казырбаева, Дворецкая 11 класс, Титул: 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. *Цитирирование части задания со ссылкой на учебник производится исключительно в учебных целях для лучшего понимания разбора решения задания.
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
