An oxymoron is a figure of speech that uses two contradictory terms together, such as "cold fire", "open secret", "seriously funny", "pretty ugly", "found missing", "alone together", and "old news". It combines words that have opposite meanings.

1. OXYMORON
- An oxymoron is a figure of speech where two
words of opposite meaning are used together.
- In which there is a combination of words that
have contradictory or opposite meanings.
- COLD, FIRE
- OPEN, SECRET
- SERIOUSLY, FUNNY
- PRETTY, UGLY
- FOUND, MISSING
- ALONE, TOGETHER
- OLD, NEWS
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How do you identify an oxymoron?
1.) I'm not surprised. That's old news to me.
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