Oxymorons appear widely in literature and art. Some of the most famous are found in Shakespeare, such as “sweet sorrow” and “O brawling love! O loving hate!” from Romeo and Juliet, ...

Shakespeare loved writing oxymorons. He was addicted to jamming opposites together in surprising ways. Romeo, for example, rants about loving hate, heavy lightness, cold fire and sick health ...

This speech by Romeo has lots of examples of oxymorons. In this play Shakespeare uses a combination of rhyme and prose to tell us more about certain characters. The servants don’t speak in rhyme ...