Drag each label to the correct category.

Match the quotes with the literary devices they use.

"O miserable abundance, O

beggarly riches!"

- John Donne

"What a pity that youth must

be wasted on the young."

- George Bernard Shaw

"I can resist anything but

temptation."

- Oscar Wilde

"How is it possible to have a

civil war?

- George Carlin

Paradox

Oxymoron

Oxymoron:

1: O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!

Paradoxes:

2: What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young.

3: I can resist anything but temptation.

4: How is it possible to have a civil war?

Explanation:

Oxymoron:

It is a figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.

e. g Fully empty, living death, O loving hate.

Based on this definition only "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!" falls under the category of Oxymoron.

Paradox: It is similar to oxymoron, but it is usually a statement with logically contradictory statements which on investigation may or may not be logically true.

e. g "Everything I say is lie", Barber Paradox: "A male barber shaves all and only those men who don't shave themselves. Does he shave himself?"

As we can find out there are no contradictory terms/words, but the statements which may contradict each other.

Based on the above, we conclude that sentence 2, 3 and 4 are Paradoxes.