Notes on Oxymoron

Oxymoron is an objective reflection of the law of the unity of opposites in the physical world, for which the rhetorical examples in English and Chinese, as well as the semantic relationship within, display a striking resemblance; nevertheless, in different systems of figures of speech, its names in English and Chinese are not fully corresponding, and oxymoron only partially corresponds to the Chinese figure duiding. Furthermore, Maodunxiushi(fa) and niyu, the translated Chinese terms for oxymoron, are open to question.