An oxymoron (plural oxymora (greek plural) or, more often, oxymorons)'s a figure of speech that combines two normally contradictory terms. They appear in a range of contexts, from inadvertent errors such as extremely average, to deliberate puns like same different, to literary oxymorons that've been carefully crafted to reveal a paradox. The most common form of oxymoron involves an adjective-noun combination. For example, the following line from Tennyson's Idylls of the King contains two oxymo… (More on Oxymoron)