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Thread #48505   Message #728820
Posted By: GUEST,ozmacca
12-Jun-02 - 08:39 PM
Thread Name: Oxymorons in lyrics
Subject: RE: Oxymorons in lyrics
If an oxymoron is defined as..... "A rhetorical figure of speech in which markedly contradictory terms appear in conjunction so as to emphasize the statement".... as defined by GUEST Jim, then does a double negative qualify as an oxymoron?

For example, any one of the innumerable songs with the equivalent of "I ain't got no....." whatever the hell comes next.