Oxymoron: (From the Greek, "pointedly foolish) A figure of speech in which an author juxtaposes apparently contradictory terms. A rethorical antithesis.
Example:
" Had he been a man of pure morals himself..."
This is an oxymoron because if Mr.Plummer had such morals then why would he hit Aunt Hester the way he did. Douglass tried to describe his master with morals, but the truth was that he was a drunkard and a swerer that had to such morals. And even Douglass says it that the peopel who knew him knew the way he was.
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