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Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms

From wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr)
Newsgroups rec.arts.sf.written
Subject Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms
Date 2015-08-20 16:31 -0400
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In article <61cdd1b8-33df-49ed-b700-358181582ba5@googlegroups.com>,
petertrei@gmail.com said:

> William December Starr wrote:
>> Paradox is a literary term?
>
> Paradoxically, yes.

That would be the

   "A statement that seems contradictory or absurd but is actually
   valid or true. According to one proverbial paradox, we must
   sometimes be cruel in order to be kind."

   (Definition lifted from some online dictionary.)

meaning of 'paradox' then?  (As opposed to, e.g., your basic acausal
event or artifact in a time-travel story, like that poem in THE ANUBIS
GATES.)

-- wds

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13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 15:47 +0000
  Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms nance@math.ohio-state.edu (Anthony Nance) - 2015-08-20 15:54 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms David DeLaney <daviddelaney@earthlink.net> - 2015-08-20 11:59 -0500
      Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@csuohio.edu> - 2015-08-20 14:26 -0400
        Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Don Kuenz <garbage@crcomp.net> - 2015-08-20 23:18 +0000
    Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 13:03 -0400
      Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 11:02 -0700
        Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-20 16:31 -0400
          Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms petertrei@gmail.com - 2015-08-20 14:05 -0700
          Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2015-08-20 15:37 -0700
            Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms Kevrob <kevrob@my-deja.com> - 2015-08-21 13:06 -0700
              Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms wdstarr@panix.com (William December Starr) - 2015-08-22 03:57 -0400
            Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2015-08-22 07:01 +0000
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  Re: 13 Essential Literary Terms djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2015-08-20 16:18 +0000
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