paradox
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literary device; anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight
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London
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William Shakespeare
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literature
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Miguel de Cervantes
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Oscar Wilde
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Jorge Luis Borges
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Romeo and Juliet
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William Wordsworth
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François Rabelais
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G. K. Chesterton
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metaphor
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John Donne
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mass–energy equivalence
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hypocrisy
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Laurence Sterne
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logical contradiction
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New Criticism
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reductio ad absurdum
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double entendre
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Paradox
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