This question is based on General Literature Principles and Literary Appreciation.
A paradox is
A paradox is
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A.
applied to a word or combination of words whose sound resembles the sense -
B.
a statement which seems self-contraditory or absurd, yet turns out to have a valid meaning -
C.
an episode of pantomime introduced through gesture and bodily movement in a play -
D.
an elaborately conceived poem expressing an urban poet’s nostalgia for life in the country