Help quick! What does an oxymoron do, rhetorically, what is the benefit from using it?
is a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. Oxymoron is burrowed from Greek oxy ("sharp" or "pointed") and moros ("dull"). Thus the word oxymoron is itself an oxymoron. eg of oxymoron: a deafening silence a forward retreat a cold summer day Same difference Pretty Ugly and so on If you want to know the rhetorical benefit from using it then i guess i can't answer that because rhetorical questions are posed for the askee to think and not answer. but in case you didnt mean that oxymoron could be used for opinion or humor eg. if you break your leg, don't come running to me.
What are examples of poems with similes, personification, and metaphors?
AdonisThe poet from Arab. He hates the status quo of his country, about politics, religion, and wars. So there are a lot of poems that shout to against the situation, they are tough and sharp, but pass all of that, something hidden is a heart that hot and soft.‘What is the prevailing morality?’‘Candle, that is about to extinguish in a suffocating cave.’‘The land of Arad is sad, her sadness is the wrinkle on the forehead of language.’‘Time stopped in Arab’s society. Despite this, it looks like only the time is still working.’‘Despair has fingers, but it only could catch the butterfly that dead already. ’‘Metaphor is a migration. Between fire and fire, between death and death.’Wound (Selected)If I had a harbor in the landof dreams and mirrors, if I had a ship,if I had the remainsof a city, if I had a cityin the land of children and weeping,I would have written all this down for the wound’s sake,a song like a spearthat penetrates trees, stone, and sky,soft like waterunbridled, startling like conquest.Desert (Selected)You will see—say his namesay you drew his facereach out your hand toward himor smileor say I was happy onceor say I was sad onceyou will see:there is no country there.Some information is from the internet.AdonisAdunis - Wikipedia