For example if you said,'a beautiful tragedy', the words 'beautiful' and 'tragedy', are completely different things. What is the English concept of putting these two words together to describe something?
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This is a good explanation for oxymoron – NVZ Feb 13 '16 at 18:55
Google defines oxymoron as "a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction".
A canonical example is "jumbo shrimp".
