figure of speech vs oxymoron

figure of speech and oxymoron both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
figure of speech	Yes	No	No	No
oxymoron	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, oxymoron is a hyponym of figure of speech; that is, oxymoron is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than figure of speech:

figure of speech: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
oxymoron: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

Other hyponyms of figure of speech include conceit, irony, exaggeration, hyperbole, kenning, metaphor, metonymy, personification, prosopopoeia, simile, synecdoche, zeugma, hypotyposis.

figure of speech (noun)	oxymoron (noun)
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense	conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

figure of speech vs oxymoron

figure of speech and oxymoron both are nouns.

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