What literary term is used to describe a figure of speech where contradictory terms appear in conjunction?
Answer: Oxymoron
Explanation
An oxymoron is a figure of speech that juxtaposes concepts with opposite meanings within a word or in a phrase that is a self-contradiction.
As a rhetorical device, an oxymoron illustrates a point to communicate and reveal a paradox.
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