Oxymoron, examples of fiction. Means of expressiveness

Speech funds such as metaphor, absurd, paradox, irony, become particularly relevant in difficult periods of social upheavals. Among them, an important place occupies an oxymoron. It is still a little studied phenomenon.

Mutually exclusive concepts

The combination of mutually exclusive independent concepts forms an oxymoron. Examples of fiction This is confirmed by: "Non-obvious obvious" (Goethe), "elegantly naked" (A. Akhmatova), "Joy of suffering" (A. Fet), "Unbearable Ease of Being" (M. Kunder).

The oxymoron represents the two concepts located nearby, where one of them determines the other. They mutually repel, contradict and logically exclude each other: "Low skyscraper", "unbearable charm", "irrepressible quiet", "turn to hell". The oxymoron in Russian was first perceived as "incorrect connection of ideas in one whole" (N.ostolopov, 1821). But he was independently present in the literature, although his interpretation in the dictionaries appeared only at the beginning of the twentieth century.

Bright artistic turn

Putting along two events denying each other, which is not just because of psychological inertness, we can create an oxymoron. The text containing only 2 words reveals the internal contradictions between phenomena, combining incompatible.
The oxymoron is a wonderful and profound artistic turn. In the names of the works of classics, the oxymoron is often used. Examples from fiction: "endless deadlock", "hot snow", "end of eternity". The poets he sounds unusual and brightly: "Gorky I was Uslada" (A. Akhmatova), "Sad joy" (S. Yesenin). Intentional compound in it opposed to the meaning of concepts is obvious, but new semantic unity is also detected. In this case, the effect of phrases is significantly intensified.

Fight definitions

In Oxymonal, the semantic content is suppressed by emotional. For example, in combination "Charming Rack", "wretched luxury" in the second concept decreases significance due to the first. The word "wretched" has a weak objective and logical value, and is more a subjective assessment of luxury. But the assessment may have a purely emotional shade, for example, in the expression "terribly glad!". And in the combination of "Little Great Man", the epithet completely changes the meaning of the sophisticated word for him to the opposite. Without this emotional estimate, the phrase will not sound so impressive. Combining opposites creates a specific stylistic effect. Emotional definition is often used as a metaphor, for example, in the expression "fun to be sad."

Intentional creation of an internal contradiction

In the oxymoconne, the concepts exclude each other, but at the same time are in harmony and internal semantic contradictions are distinguished. If, in combination of two components, there are simultaneously there are no two different values: emotional and objective logical, it turns out to be a logical error, and not the realization of the artistic goal. Their inappropriate use can also not create Oxymorone. Its main function is the expression of attitudes towards an event. It is impossible to explain the essence of interpretation if the author does not understand what he says.

Intentional creation of an internal contradiction gives rise to oxymoron. The combination of the "White Crow" is a catalypse - a stylistic error, since there is no contradiction. Most likely, this is an incorrect combination of incompatible concepts. The word "shoot" earlier meant that a bow or crossbow was used as a weapon. No one says: "Let the bullet from the gun" - although it will be correct. The expression "colored underwear" has become familiar, and at first it was only white.

Not every couple of incompatible concepts form an oxymoron. Examples from fiction show that even great classics, like L. Tolstoy, can be wrong: "... climbing on the arm ... head ...". There is a regular stylistic error.

In russian language

Unlike the cata cuts of the Oxymoron Paradoxal. Through it are trying to find a solution that combines "smart with stupid", creating a "deliberate chance" or moving "back to the future." In a psychological sense, this is the only way to resolve the situation when "water and the flame should exist together."

The oxymoron contains a whole set of speech: irony, metaphor, paradox, allyzia. The most common medium of his "habitat" are poems. The oxymoron there is found most to create a comic effect. It is natural, since paradoxical information causes a reaction in the form of laughter.

In the first perception, due to the underlined illogy, it is especially high, the significance that the oxymoron has. Examples from fiction: "Wild, Groznye Lasha full" (E. Baratsky), "Innocent passion" (F. Tyutchev). Entering the source, the oxymifers losing their sharpness and turn into ordinary metaphors. Some of them are dynamic in time, can reborn again, overcoming stereo in new forms. Others remain firmly as a metaphor: "Sign blue blizzards", "Sea blue boys" (S. Yesenin).
Thus, the means of expressiveness in Russian can change roles.

Where is the oxymmer hidden?

Oxymifers can be found in the most unexpected cases, for example, in genre notation: "Tragicomedy", "Roman in verse". Paradoxically sounds "unpaid salary". Artists often enjoy the admission of the combination of incompatible. For this, other means are used: the size ratios, silhouettes, color tensions and lines, caricatures.

Conclusion

The oxymoron is based on a double opposition, creating a single holistic phenomenon from the attitude of opposites. It can be a simple taking of typing, as well as one of the ways of understanding and mapping reality.