<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>Rhetoric, plural ox·y·mo·ra [ok-si-, mawr, -uh, -mohr, -uh], ox·y·mor·ons.</li><li>A figure of speech by which a locution produces an incongruous, seemingly self-contradictory effect, as in “cruel kindness” or “to make haste slowly.”</li></ul>