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Brainy stuff....

Oxymoron is a literary figure of speech in which opposite or contradictory words, terms, phrases or ideas are combined to create a rhetorical effect by paradoxical means.

Oxymoron is simply created by a 'moron'. I would simply say it is a nonsense creation made by famous writers like Shakespeare. These create more confusion, and also make statements tough to comprehend.

See some statements taken from Shakespeare's Novel

O brawling love, O Loving hate

What is this???? Loving hate (this statement is logically confusing but has meaning)

Here comes problem for readers. They have to fight against their logical mind and analyse deeply.

Though, after analysing we may feel that it is a masterpiece creation. (Loving the feel of hate "what a way to express") But all these kind of statements are not my cup of tea. 1st impression I get after reading statement 'loving hate' is more a feel of love than hate.

But instead meaning says feel of hate is loved.

See some more.

O heavy lightness

When can this happen?? Or what does it mean?? My brain is not able to fight here and get the meaning.

Does it mean lightness is so heavy?

Here's one more to the poor brain

Bright Smoke

How can smoke be bright???(Logical thinking of brain) But after analysing we see that statement implies that 'Smoke is clearly visible'

See this....

She is just a poor little rich girl

This is a bouncer...Now is she poor or rich?

We also do lot of creations in order to have our own rhetoric effect. See some of them....

Original copy, Virtual reality, pretty bad, serious joke, Perfect mismatch, Dying to live, painless torture, Best worst movie ever made, bad luck, fried roast, friendly fights, nothing much etc..This list goes on.......

Now, enough of brain eating oxymorons. Let's see some paradoxes.

These paradoxes are also bewildering. See some famous paradoxes

This one from Socrates

"I know nothing at all."

Then how come he knows that he knows nothing.

Another simple paradox:

This statement is false

Statement asserts that it is itself false. Hypothesis that it is true leads to contradiction.

Now enough of brain eating stuff, let's see some brain friendly mnemonics.

Mnemonic: A form of words or letters formed in a way to assist the memory.

One famous mnemonic: BODMAS rule while calculating.

e.g.: one from my school days for trigonometry

'All silver tea cups' which means

All sine, cosine, tangent angles are positive in 1st quadrant

All sine angles positive in 2nd quadrant

All tangent angle positive in 3rd quadrant

All cosine angles are positive in 4th quadrant.

Also confusing words like practice/practise or advice/advise can be remembered well with some hint. Here words ending in -ice are nouns and -ise are verbs. We can frame our own mnemonics. (E.g. I see as verb.)

Now dear friends post some funny Oxymorons or some Mnemonics which will be of help.