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What is oxymoron? And What is paradox?

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an oxymoron is a figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly."

Paradox - a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

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