Sunday 3 February 2013

Oxymoron and Paradox Images


This image represents oxymoron because it means its a figure of speech that combines contradictory terms. This image clearly shows a smoking "container" that is used to dispose your cigarrette after you finish it. But this one has a badge or stamp that says not to dispose your cigarrettes there. A clear example of oxymoron because the usage of the obejct contradicts what the symbol of the stamp says.








This image is of an elephant. It is a clear example of paradox because if you look at the legs of the elephant it seems it has more than four legs and some are not in a logical position which makes this impossible in real life. Why is this paradox? Well paradox means an argument that produces an incosistently, typically within logic or common sense. This image shows how this creates an optical ilusion or that incosistency.




The third image shows paradox in its purest form because two hands are growing out of a paper and they are drawing each other out. Again this creates the inconsistency. This is definietly not possible in real life or logic because no human hands will grow out of a piece of paper and they will not draw each other out and then suddenly pop out of the paper.

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