LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Question
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The sentence, “Death, thou shalt not die.” is an example of ____
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simile
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metaphor
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irony
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paradox
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Answer: “Death, thou shalt die”-this statement is an example of a paradox. And Death shall be no more; Death, thou shalt die.” NOTE: if the paradoxical accidents on joins two terms that in ordinary usage are contraries, it is called an oxymoron.
Detailed explanation-2: -It’s a paradox when John Donne writes in his “Holy Sonnet 10", “Death, thou shalt die, ” because he’s using “death” in two different senses. Death can’t die, can it? Well, strictly speaking, it can’t, but the speaker is trying to show that mortality is, in a weird way, mortal itself.
Detailed explanation-3: -Quote by John Donne: “Death, thou shalt die.”
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