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  2. Juxtaposition - Wikipedia

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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]

  3. Anachronism - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Greek Orpheus with a violin (invented in the 16th century) rather than a lyre.A 17th-century painting by Cesare Gennari. An anachronism (from the Greek ἀνά ana, 'against' and χρόνος khronos, 'time') is a chronological inconsistency in some arrangement, especially a juxtaposition of people, events, objects, language terms and customs from different time periods.

  4. Juxtaposition (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Juxtaposition is an act or instance of placing two elements close together or side by side, often to contrast them. Juxtaposition may also refer to: Juxtaposition Magazine, a student-run global health magazine at the University of Toronto; Juxtaposition: Barons of Ceti V, a Wintersoft game

  5. Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands , including Sumatra , Java , Sulawesi , and parts of Borneo and New Guinea .

  6. Order of operations - Wikipedia

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    The order of operations, that is, the order in which the operations in an expression are usually performed, results from a convention adopted throughout mathematics, science, technology and many computer programming languages.

  7. Irony - Wikipedia

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    Irony, in its broadest sense, is the juxtaposition of what appears to be the case on the surface and what is actually the case or to be expected. It typically figures as a rhetorical device and literary technique. In some philosophical contexts, however, it takes on a larger significance as an entire way of life.

  8. Antithesis - Wikipedia

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    Antithesis (pl.: antitheses; Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντι-"against" and θέσις "placing") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.

  9. Juxtapose (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    About Wikipedia; Contact us; Contribute Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; ... Juxtapose is the verb form of juxtaposition. Juxtapose may also refer to: Juxtapose ...