Antonomasia (антономазия, переименование)

Exercise V. In the following sentences pay attention to the struc­ture and semantics of oxymorons. Also indicate which of their members conveys the individually viewed feature of the object and which one reflects its generally accepted characteristic:
1. He caught a ride home to the crowded loneliness of the barracks. (J.)
2. Sprinting towards the elevator he felt amazed at his own coward­ly courage. (G.M.)
3. They were a bloody miserable lot—the miserablest lot of men I ever saw. But they were good to me. Bloody good. (J.St.)
4. He behaved pretty lousily to Jan. (D.C.)
5. Well might he perceive the hanging of her hair in fairest quantity in locks, some curled and some as if it were forgotten, with such a careless care and an art so hiding art that it seemed she would lay them for a pattern. (Ph. S.)
6. There were some bookcases of superbly unreadable books. (E.W.)
7. Absorbed as we were in the pleasures of travel—and I in my mod­est pride at being the only examinee to cause a commotion—we were over the old Bridge. (W.G.)
8. "Heaven must be the hell of a place. Nothing but repentant sin­ners up there, isn't it?" (Sh.D.)
9. Harriet turned back across the dim garden. The lightless light looked down from the night sky. (I.M.)
10. Sara was a menace and a tonic, my best enemy; Rozzie was a dis­ease, my worst friend. (J.Car.)
11. It was an open secret that Ray had been ripping his father-in-law off. (D.U.)
12. A neon sign reads "Welcome to Reno—the biggest little town in the world." (A.M.)
13. Huck Finn and Holden Caulfield are Good Bad Boys of Ameri­can literature. (V.)
14. Haven't we here the young middle-aged woman who cannot quite compete with the paid models in the fashion magazine but who yet catches our eye? (Jn.H.)
15. Their bitter-sweet union did not last long. (A.C.)
16. He was sure the whites could detect his adoring hatred of them. (Wr.)
17. You have got two beautiful bad examples for parents. (Sc. F.)
18. He opened up a wooden garage. The doors creaked. The garage was full of nothing. (R.Ch.)
19. She was a damned nice woman, too. (H.)
20. A very likeable young man with a pleasantly ugly face. (A.C.)

ASSIGNMENTS FOR SELF-CONTROL

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  What is an oxymoron and what meanings are foregrounded in its for­mation?
  
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  Why are there comparatively few trite oxymorons and where are they mainly used?
  
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  Give some examples of trite oxymorons.