Oxymorons
Good writing combines ideas in novel ways. Try using the following combinations in sentences that give insight into why the odd combinations fittingly describe what’s going on.
- festive tyrant
- fabulous poverty
- thoughtful depression
- blissful zombie
- tasty plague
- beautiful monster
- fabulous crisis
- putrid wealth
- foul loyalty
- impoverished beauty
- shameful miracle
- miserable courage
- tyranical perfection
- depressing optimism
festive tyrant
Golrath was a festive tyrant for he could not imagine a sight more enjoyable than watching the brightly costumed condemned parade past him.
fabulous poverty
Finia and Joren lived happily ever after in fabulous poverty, free from the chains of ownership.
thoughtful depression
Borelle poised at the precipice of a thoughtful depression, realizing her own choices had brought her to this path and that only her own choices could lead her away.
blissful zombie
Now freed from the pain of its horrible injuries sustained in the accident with the thresher, the blissful zombie shuffled towards the village.
tasty plague
Among the Fleen tribe of rats word spread as quickly as the disease that the village had been visitied by a tasty plague.
Which is as far as I got in 15 minutes!
Comment by Dragon Writer — April 7, 2006 @ 6:26 am