Word Search: Painfully Beautiful Impossible Solution Oxymoron Search

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This Word Search: Painfully Beautiful Impossible Solution Oxymoron Search resource is a great way to review or introduce the word oxymoron in your class!
Students will find in this Word Search: Painfully Beautiful Impossible Solution Oxymoron Search 17 examples of oxymorons listed boldly below the grid.
Once they find each of the words, students may arrange the un-circled (or uncrossed out) letters in order, and this will allow them to find an apt quote and its author/stater.
Oxymorons included in this resource are:
Awful good
Extinct life
Jumbo shrimp
Bittersweet
Freezer burn
Only choice
Civil war
Good grief
Random order
Clean dirt
Guest host
Small crowd
Dry ice
Icy hot
Steel wool
Dull roar
True myths
For the oxymorons with two words, they will be found in this word search right next to each other
This Word Search: Painfully Beautiful Impossible Solution Oxymoron Search is a ready to use resource, just have to print it!
This Word Search: Painfully Beautiful Impossible Solution Oxymoron Search was designed for secondary school students and it may be used in conjunction with a literature lesson, vocabulary, or quotes explorations.
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In the classroom
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Learning objectives
Recognise oxymorons as phrases that pair words with opposite meanings
Skills covered
Identifying oxymorons — finding pairs like dry ice, small crowd and true myths in the grid
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