SAT写作常用修辞之矛盾修饰oxymoron

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　　新东方在线SAT频道为大家带来SAT写作常用修辞之矛盾修饰oxymoron，希望对大家SAT备考有所帮助。更多精彩尽请关注新东方在线SAT频道!

　　大家一定不觉得oxymoron(矛盾修饰)眼生，我们一般会拿它跟paradox(自相矛盾、悖论)进行对比。其实两者很容易区分，oxymoron主要用于短语，如：peace force 和平部队，living dead 行尸走肉等等，常见于以下形式：adj+n，n+n，adj+adj，adv+adj.

　　而paradox则常见于句子中的前后矛盾。从oxymoron的词源上入手，就更好理解啦。oxymoron是由希腊语中意为“sharp”和“dull”的两个词组合而成，而这两个词合在一起就是所谓的矛盾修饰。对此，英国作家Thomas Gibbons就曾形容oxymoron为“sense in the masquerade of folly."更具体来说：

　　"The true beauty of oxymorons," says Richard Watson Todd, "is that, unless we sit back and really think, we happily accept them as normal English." Todd illustrates his point in the following passage:

　　It was an open secret that the company had used a paid volunteer to test the plastic glasses. Although they were made using liquid gas technology and were an original copy that looked almost exactly like a more expensive brand, the volunteer thought that they were pretty ugly and that it would be simply impossible for the general public to accept them. On hearing this feedback, the company board was clearly confused and there was a deafening silence. This was a minor crisis and the only choice was to drop the product line.

　　(Much Ado About English. Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2006)

　　在阅读理解和写作中，oxymoron可以产生两种强烈的修辞效果。

　　第一，出人意料。由于两部分语义相互矛盾，合并使用有悖常理，所以矛盾修辞强烈碰撞读者的神经思维，起到意想不到，启发思维的作用，为进一步深化理解奠定了基础。例如“cruel kindness”，“true lies”等便是矛盾修辞法的具体表现。

　　第二，引人入胜。矛盾词语的冲击会激发读者进一步深化理解的欲望。在仔细推敲这种看似矛盾的语言表达之后，读者会发现矛盾修辞法所表示的语义矛盾不仅符合逻辑，而且使文章更加形象生动，意蕴丰富且深刻。

　　下面就给大家列举50个oxymoron在古典现代中的awfully good examples，一起来学习一下吧~

　　50 Awfully Good Examples of Oxymorons

　　1.absent presence

　　(Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney)2.alone together3.awful good4."beggarly riches"

　　(Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions by John Donne)5.bitter sweet6."brisk vacancy"

　　("Self Portrait in a Convex Mirror" by John Ashbery)7.cheerful pessimist8.clearly misunderstood9."comfortable misery"

　　(One Door Away From Heaven by Dean Koontz)10.cool passion11.cruel kindness12."darkness visible"

　　(Paradise Lost by John Milton)13.deceptively honest14.eloquent silence15.exact estimate16.extinct life17."falsely true"

　　(Lancelot and Elaine by Lord Tennyson)18.genuine imitation19.guest host20.historical present21.humane slaughter22.icy hot23.ill health24.joyful sadness25."lascivious grace"

　　(Sonnet 40 by William Shakespeare)26."liquid marble"(Poetaster by Ben Jonson)27.loud whisper28."melancholy merriment"

　　(Don Juan by Lord Byron)29.militant pacifist30.old news31.openly deceptive32.open secret33.original copy34.overbearingly modest35.peaceful conquest36.properly ridiculous37.random order38.sad smile39.seriously funny40.silent scream41."The Sound of Silence"

　　(song by Paul Simon)42."sweet sorrow"(Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare)43.terribly good44."transparent night"("When Lilacs Last in the Door-yard Bloom’d"by Walt Whitman)45.true fiction46.True Lies

　　(movie directed by James Cameron)47.unbiased opinion48.unconscious awareness49.wise fool50.working vacation

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