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The speaker uses which literary device to contrast Spring with Autumn in the second stanza?


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Sorry Okay AP English People still on this poem loves

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drawing this death blah blah blah Shmoop The speaker uses

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which literary device to contrast spring with autumn in the

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second stands are the second one down here That's the

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second stanza Well let's think Boy do we love us

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Some good juxtaposition here It's just a fun word to

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say Juxtaposition juxtaposition Jackson Syria Good times how we do

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things that shmoop anyway The speaker uses that device of

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putting two opposite side by side in the same stanza

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to accent They're different Spring is the opposite of autumn

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just like love is the opposite of death So the

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answer here is E J Position Yeah Loser bowl While

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oxymoron that might have worked if the speaker managed to

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somehow lump spring and autumn into the same word or

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phrase like jumbo shrimp But she didn't write That's the

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ultimate oxymoron Jumbo shrimp hyperbole C is a gross exaggeration

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which spring and autumn are not and contrasting Spring and

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autumn is not the opposite of what's intended or expected

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So get rid of deep figurative language like a partially

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true But it's too much of an umbrella term to

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give the desired specifics and in these kind of questions

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always go with the most Pacific thing so that's e 00:01:22.06 --> [endTime] juxtaposition That's it We're done

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