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Read the line from Act II of The Importance of Being Earnest.
Algernon. Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life.
The literary device used in this line is a(n)
understatement.
pun.
paradox.
epigram
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paradox.
It presents a seemingly self-contradictory idea—that being serious is necessary to have amusement—which exposes a witty truth, characteristic of Wilde's paradoxical epigrams.
It presents a seemingly self-contradictory idea—that being serious is necessary to have amusement—which exposes a witty truth, characteristic of Wilde's paradoxical epigrams.
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