It might sound like a schoolyard insult, but it’s not. An oxymoron refers to a word, phrase, or use of language that seems to ...

Coralie Fargeat’s “The Substance” (MUBI) opens in 1,949 U.S./Canada theaters this week. That’s not unusual for a genre film (aging star imbibes youth-enhancing serum, chaos ensues), but it ...

Semirara Mining and Power Corp. (SMPC) is hard evidence that the phrase “sustainable mining” is not a contradiction in terms, i.e., an “oxymoron.” This is very important to assert, especially to those ...

Writers can use metaphors and similes to make a comparison and show the similarity between different things. But they can also deliberately use contrasting words and ideas to make us pay attention ...

Explore the way he uses rhythm and rhyme, imagery and metaphor and oxymorons and opposites in Romeo and Juliet. Imagery in Romeo and Juliet is vivid and often poetic. It adds to the feelings that ...