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Juxtaposition in literary terms is the showing contrast by concepts placed side by side. An example of juxtaposition are the quotes "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country", and "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate", both by John F. Kennedy, who particularly liked juxtaposition as a rhetorical device. [1]
The first line of the third stanza, in describing her smile, contains a heart-wrenching juxtaposition. Normally a facial gesture associated with happiness and joy, a smile is described as "the deadest thing". This provokes strong emotion in the reader, as the cold causality of the gesture serves as reminder to the bitterness of the poem.
"The Clod and the Pebble" is the exemplification of Blake's statement at the beginning of Songs of Innocence and of Experience that it is the definition of the "Contrary States of the Human Soul".
21. "I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food."." — W.C. Fields. 22. "The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude."
Happiness Quotes about Self Love. Today I choose life, I choose happiness. By loving yourself, you’re going to be a happy person. A lot of people don’t like themselves for whatever reason.
Laughter and joy, according to relief theory, result from this release of excess nervous energy. [1] According to relief theory, humor is used mainly to overcome sociocultural inhibitions and reveal suppressed desires. It is believed that this is why we laugh while being tickled, due to a buildup of tension as the tickler "strikes." [1] [7]
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves is a 2013 novel by the American writer Karen Joy Fowler.The novel won the 2014 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction [1] and was also shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize and the 2014 Nebula Award for Best Novel.
Often the use of musical quotation has an ironic edge, whether the musician is aiming for an amusing juxtaposition or is making a more pointed commentary (as when a youthful Rollins, playing alongside Charlie Parker on Miles Davis's Collector's Items, throws in a snippet of "Anything You Can Do I Can Do Better," [9] or when the avant-garde ...