Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1835 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Paradox and Epigram
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The idea
The glossary defines paradox as a phrase seeming self-contradictory that makes powerful sense despite its lack of logic. An epigram is a short pointed saying, and the glossary has no headword for it. Wilde's lines are usually both at once.
In practice
Short, pointed, self-contradicting.
Where people slip
The glossary defines only one of them.
Your place on the trail
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