1. PARADOX? OR
OXYMORON?

2. Oxymoron vs. Paradox

3. An OXYMORON
is a combination of contradictory words that are stuck together in a way that actually seems to make sense.

4. open secret
act naturally
found missing
deafening silence
Advanced BASIC
virtual reality
pretty ugly
almost exactly
minor crisis
exact estimate

5. open secret
larger half
act naturally
alone together
found missing
liquid gas
deafening silence
seriously funny
Advanced BASIC
tragic comedy
virtual reality
definite maybe
pretty ugly
same difference
almost exactly
jumbo shrimp
minor crisis
wise fool
exact estimate
only choice

6. open secret
larger half
clearly confused
act naturally
alone together
Hell's Angels
found missing
liquid gas
extinct life
deafening silence
seriously funny
living dead
Advanced BASIC
tragic comedy
rolling stop
virtual reality
definite maybe
original copies
pretty ugly
same difference
plastic glasses
almost exactly
jumbo shrimp
working holiday
minor crisis
wise fool
genuine imitation
exact estimate
only choice
freezer burn

7. by William Shakespeare
sweet sorrow
from Romeo and Juliet
by William Shakespeare

8. is an extended OXYMORON.
A PARADOX
is an extended OXYMORON.

9. Truth is honey which is bitter.
War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength (George Orwell, 1984)
Truth is honey which is bitter.

10. “What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.”
George Bernard Shaw
“I can resist anything but temptation.”
Oscar Wilde

11. Are these paradoxes or oxymorons?
O brawling love, O loving hate,
O anything of nothing first created!
O heavy lightness, serious vanity,
Misshapen chaos of well-meaning forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health,
Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
--Romeo