Question

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

• oscar wilde

temptation.\
\how is it possible to have a
civil war?\

• george carlin

paradox
oxymoron

Explanation:

• Paradox: A paradox is a statement that seems self - contradictory but may reveal a truth.
• "What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young": Youth is a time of potential, but it is often not fully appreciated by the young themselves.
• "I can resist anything but temptation": The statement creates a contradiction as one claims to resist everything yet singles out temptation as something they can't resist.
• "How is it possible to have a civil war?": A civil war is a war within a country, and the question implies a contradiction as "civil" usually means peaceful or related to citizens in a non - war context.
• Oxymoron: An oxymoron is a combination of contradictory terms.
• "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!": "Miserable" and "abundance" (one would expect abundance to be positive), "beggarly" and "riches" (riches are wealth, beggarly is poor) are contradictory pairings.

Answer:

• Paradox: "What a pity that youth must be wasted on the young", "I can resist anything but temptation", "How is it possible to have a civil war?"
• Oxymoron: "O miserable abundance, O beggarly riches!"