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Which figure of speech is used in this text?

His guardians were extremely old-fashioned people and did not realize that we live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
—Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

paradox

euphemism

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The figure of speech used in this text is a paradox. The statement contradicts itself by stating that unnecessary things are necessities.
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