Start by googling literary device. Here are 15 literary devices that can be used in writing:
- Allusion
- Diction
- Alliteration
- Allegory
- Colloquialism
- Euphemism
- Flashbacks
- Foreshadowing
- Imagery
- Juxtaposition
- Metaphor/simile
- Personification
- Onomatopoeia
- Symbolism
- Tone
If you need to know what any of these mean, click on the word and get the definition.
Look up oxymoron.
Based on the definition that you get for oxymoron, identify oxymoron in the the novel, To Kill a Mocking Bird.
Finally determine which literary device best fits the oxymoron that you identified.