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literary device; anomalous juxtaposition of incongruous ideas for the sake of striking exposition or unexpected insight

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William Shakespeare

Miguel de Cervantes

Jorge Luis Borges

Romeo and Juliet

William Wordsworth

François Rabelais

G. K. Chesterton

mass–energy equivalence

Laurence Sterne

logical contradiction

reductio ad absurdum

double entendre

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Literary concepts

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Tears of the Prodigal Son

narrative technique

Wisława Szymborska

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