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babunello [35]
2 years ago
6

What literary device consists of a pair of contradictory words or ideas?

English
2 answers:
sammy [17]2 years ago
7 0
I believe it is an oxymoron
VashaNatasha [74]2 years ago
7 0

The answer is "Oxymoron".

Oxymoron is a literary device combining words of opposite meaning that seem to exclude each other, but which, in context, reinforce expression (eg: obscure clarity, silent music)

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