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ParadoxSet 1

1A contradiction is:

2"If you replace every part of a ship, but then rebuild the ship with original parts, the one with the original parts is the actual ship."

3Part IV: The Story of an Hour-The phrase "the joy that kills" at the end of the story is an example of which literary device?

4What part of speech is paradox?

5Identify the figure of speech shown in the sentence."If there's one thing that I know, it's that I don't know anything at all."

6A figurative language that uses statements that contradicts itself.

7Identify the rhetorical device in this statement: "I must be cruel to be kind."

8"I like large parties. They're so intimate. At small parties there isn't any privacy." (Fitzgerald)

9I am nobody.

10Which of the following excerpts is an example of the figure of speech "paradox" ?

11A statement that seems impossible because the ideas are opposites, but have an element of truth is which of the following rhetorical devices?

12What is Paradox

13This is an example of a(n) .....

14Identify the figure of speech in the sentence: "You have to spend money to earn money."

15Identify the literary device in the following: "I am not what I am"

16As a figure of speech, it is a seemingly self-contradictory phrase or concept that illuminates a truth

17Which literary element is shown below?The earth that's nature's mother is her tomb;What is her burying grave, that is Rainbow in her womb;

18What does Whitman's quote 'I contain multitudes' reveal about his view of identity?

19Paradox is .....

20In Sonnet 129, the final couplet "All this the world well knows; yet none knows well / To shun the heaven that leads men to this hell" asserts which paradox?

21"I must be cruel to be kind"-Shakespeare (Hamlet)

22Which line sums Illyria's indeterminacy: reality unstable and elusive?

23A statement that seems contradictory, yet it makes sense

24Identify the literary device in the following: "The robbed that smiles steals something from the thief"

25A statement that seems absurd or self contradicting but could be true upon analysis

26Define the following literary device: paradox

27An apparent contradiction or absurdity that is somehow true is a/an:

28"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."

29Do you believe if you win all the time, you really lose?

30What has replaced the Seven Commandments on the barn wall?

31Which figurative language is this an example of:Less is more.

32"Virtue itself turns vice being misapplied/And vice sometimes by action dignified."

33The following is an example of which rhetorical device?Sometimes paddling upstream is smoother than flowing with the current.

34Which statement is paradoxical?

35In Sonnet 106, the logic of "all their praises are but prophecies" leads to which paradox?

36"Failure is the key to success" would be what type of fig. language?

37What do you call a phrase that seems like a contradiction yet carries meaning?