Thursday, January 19, 2012

What is the literary device where two words that are antonyms are placed together?

e.g. soppy-stern, happy-sad, high-low, talkative-tacit.



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* Subject to availabilityWhat is the literary device where two words that are antonyms are placed together?
Oxymoron. :D Like "Fast turtle."



Cookie? *Wobble chin*
Don't forget "military intelligence"



Oxymoron is correct (though to me you don't look like an ox or a moron)What is the literary device where two words that are antonyms are placed together?
That's an oxymoron. :DWhat is the literary device where two words that are antonyms are placed together?
do you mean an oxymoron were the statement is self contradictory such as parting is such sweat sorrow?

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