IRONY: is a literary device which reveals concealed or contradictory meanings.
JUXTAPOSITION: Placing two contrasting things side by side usually to create an effect or reveal theme. In this scene from "The Godfather," Francis Ford Copolla juxtaposed a mafia don's son's baptism with the murders the don ordered to be carried out.
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OXYMORON: two words placed close together that are contradictory, yet have truth in them.
PARADOX: a statement in which there is an apparent contradiction which is nontheless true.
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