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An Oxymoron is a combination of contradictory or incongruous words, such as 'Cruel Kindness' or 'Jumbo Shrimp' (Jumbo means 'large' while Shrimp means 'small').
It 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.
The word 'Oxymoron' is originally derived from the Greek elements: oxy = sharp and moros (moron) = dull (foolish). 'Oxymoron' is the singular form, and 'Oxymora' (or 'Oxymorons') is the plural form.
We are all oxymorons, we tend to run into all sorts of contradictions. I am an oxymoron--several apply, in fact. Solo parent. Grown-up girl. Cheerfully cynical. Open secret. But I guess being all that is still better than being just a plain moron, don't you think?
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Melissa is an on-again, off-again creative writer who currently toils in the fields of a far-away land of dust and dryness, working within a box.
A solo parent by choice to two rambunctious boys, she longs for many things out of life, not all of them tangible.
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"Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free. The box is only temporary."
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