Explain figures of speech .
(1) - Assonance
(2) - Paradox
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A paradox is a figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itself. For example:
"This is the beginning of the end."
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Assonance: Assonance is the repetition of vowel sounds. For example, there is a repetition of the vowel o sound in the following passage:
“Poetry is old, ancient, goes back far. It is among the oldest of living things. So old it is that no man knows how and why the first poems came.”
A paradox is a figure of speech in which a statement appears to contradict itself. For example:
"This is the beginning of the end."
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