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How do you classify an oxymoron?

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A phrase combining two contradictory terms. Oxymorons may be intentional or unintentional. The following speech from William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet uses several oxymorons: Why, then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O anything, of nothing first create!

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