Lexical Expressive Means and Stylistic Devices

Oxymoron. Oxymoron is lexical device the syntactic and semantic structures 
of which come to clashes eg: “cold fire”, brawling love” “ishbilarmon dangasa” 
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“achiq kulgi”. Oxymoron is the use of an epithet or in attributive phrase that is 
contradictory to the noun it modifies. Chopin’s beautiful sorrow, a generous miser, 
busy idleness, a beautifully ugly face.
An Oxymoron is used to give a figurative characterization of a notion to 
reveal its inner complicated nature. It may serve to denote a temporary feature of a 
notion.
Eg: It was with an almost cruel joy. Suddenly she felt the need to speak. The 
wordy silence troubled her: It was a relief to be on board and no longer alone 
together.
Of course an oxymoron always expressed the author’s subjective attitude: 
Come to me in the silence of the night 
Come in the speaking silence of a dream.
 Uyg`on, ey malagim, tur o`rningdan tur,
Otashin muzlarda isinaylik yur 
Yong`inli daryoda quloch otaylik,
Bu erdan ketaylik, faqat ketaylik.
The stylistic effect is based on the fact that the denotational meaning of the 
attribute is not entirely lost. If it had been lost the word combination would 
resemble those attributes with only emotional meaning such as: It’s awfully nice of 
you, I’m terrible glad. Oxymoron as a rule has the following structural model: 
adjective+noun or adverb adjective.
Stylistic Devices of Descriptive Character. 
In order to understand the linguistic nature of the SDs of this group it is 
necessary to clear up some problems, so far untouched, of definition can point out 
only one or two properties of a phenomenon. Therefore in building up a definition 
the definer tries to single out the most essential features of the object. These are 
pinned down by the definer through a long period of observation of the object. its 
functioning, its growth and its changes.
However, no definition can comprise all the inner qualities of the object and 
new combinations of it with other objects as well; a deeper penetration into the 

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ontology of the object will always reveal some hither to unknown qualities and 
features. In the fourth group of stylistic devices, which we now come to, we find 
they one of the qualities of the object in question is made to sound essential.