The English Corner

What’s an oxymoron? To me, the name conjures up an image of a dumb ox. What does it mean to you?

Really it is just a fancy definition for words that seem contradictory when put together, like pretty ugly.

Merriam Webster definition

• http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oxymoron

Oxymorons from A to Z & by category.

• http://english-zone.com/index.php?page=1098&pid=82
• http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_example.html
• http://www.guy-sports.com/months/jokes_oxymoron.htm
• http://www.drmardy.com/oxymoronica/oxymora/a-i.shtml
• http://www.drmardy.com/oxymoronica/oxymora/j-r.shtml
• http://www.drmardy.com/oxymoronica/oxymora/s-z.shtml
• http://www.oxymorons.com/oxymorons.html
• http://www.fun-with-words.com/oxym_oxymoronology.html

Lesson plus the printable activity

• http://www.eslsite.com/rd/Vocabulary/oxymoron.html

Colorful white board flip chart

• http://www.prometheanplanet.com/server.php?show=ConResource.965

Cute cartoon

• http://community.livejournal.com/e_s_l/634.html

Examples of Oxymorons in Poems & Poetry

• http://www.examples-help.org.uk/oxymoron.htm
• http://rhetoric.byu.edu/Figures/O/oxymoron.htm

Lesson plans

• http://www.floridatechnet.org/GED/LessonPlans/LanguageArtsReading/LAR%20Lesson%2011%20Oymorons.pdf

Short article

• http://www.thenewstoday.info/2006/11/08/oxymoron.html

And now for something completely different…
Do you speak English?

• http://www.americantesol.com/tesolcafe/play.php?vid=1529