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 True& False Oxymorons Quest

Oxymoron is a figure of speech wherein the literal meaning amounts to logical contradiction. However slightly shifted suggestive meaning (Lakshnaarth) is not a logical contradiction but contains subtle truth in it with some humor.

False Oxymoron is not a logical contradiction even if taken literally. Find out as to which of the following are true oxymorons & which are false.

Example False Oxymoron: ‘Standard Table of Random Numbers’ appears logical contradiction. However such thing actually exists. It is stipulated to use it for sample selection in surveys.

Example of proper oxymoron: ‘Original Copy’, the original document is not a copy but as its comes along with set of copies it gets this funny name.

Please note that rhetoric suggestions like ‘Clean Politician’, ‘Collective responsibility’, ‘Humble IITian’, ‘Listening Husband’ are not included.

Exercise- Answers

Mark as to which of the following are proper Oxymorons & which of them are false.

1)    Preaching Innocence                 True, innocence has to be spontaneous

2)     Complementary Opposites       False,  very much exist

3)    Asymmetric Balance                 False, (see architecture of Pune

                                                        University main building)

4)    Dynamic Equilibrium                False, very much exists

5)    Attraction of the forbidden        False, very much exists

6)    Maintaining Spontaneity           True, if it is ‘maintained’ it is not   

                                                   Spontaneity

7)    Impending Motion                     False, very much exists

8)    Agree to Differ                          False, We Ought to

9)    Allowable Error                         False, Has to be provided for

10)     Controlling Fortune                   True, If controlled how it is fortune?

11)     Disinterested Delight              False, Experience of Beauty(Kant)

12)     Successful Retreat                  False, very much needed

13)     Only alternative                      False, Such situation comes forced move

14)     Polite Insistence                      False, Diplomacy! isn’t it

15)     Generous Duty                        True, Impossible Generosity has to be  

                                                      beyond duty

16)     Healthy Disregard                   If something is not too wrong let them  

                                                    do it

17)     Contrast Matching                   very much exists               

18)     Attack is the best Defense        It is so at least in some situations