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Q: What is cruel kindness is an example of figurative language?
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What kind of figurative language is used here cruel words are weapons?

Metaphor


What is the opposite of kind?

Unkind, or cruel. A lack of kindness can also be apathy or indifference.


How did Alexander the great use kindness and terror?

Alexander the great used kindness and terror to conquer because he was lenient if people surrendered, but viciously cruel if they did not.


What is the word to describe 2 words in a sentence that appear to oppose each other?

Oxymoron is the word you are looking for.Example:'He looked at her with cruel kindness'.The expression 'cruel kindness' is an oxymoronbringing out a self-contradictory effect in the sentence.


Is wet water an oxymoron?

No, an oxymoron is a self contradictory statement, such as 'cruel kindness'


Give me meaning opposite words of cruel?

The opposite of 'cruel' is 'kind'. People say 'you have to be cruel to be kind', using a common paradox. Cruelty is being unpleasant and hurtful to a person, for no apparent reason. Kindness is being pleasant and helpful to a person, for no apparent reason. Therefore the opposite of cruelty is kindness.


What is a sentence cruel to be kind?

give example of oxymoron using cruel to be kind


What is a figurative metaphor?

All metaphors are figurative (cannot be interpreted literally). If you say 'Mary is a block of ice', you take it as meaning 'Mary is an unemotional, perhaps cruel, person'. So metaphor is a figure of speech where words (here, 'block of ice') have figurative meaning, that is mean something different than they literally say.


What are 5 synonyms for the word cruel?

brutality, ruthlessness, depravity, inhumanity, barbaity, callousness, spitefulness, mercilessness


5 examples of an oxymoron?

Cruel kindness - poor little rich girl - make haste slowly - living death - fiend angelical


What does cruel proclamation means and its example?

[object Object]


Whats an example of an oxymoron?

Brilliantly stupid Seriously confused Open secret Only choice and my favourite, Hell's Angels ;)