Answer: In an inverted sentence, the predicate is placed before the subject/noun.
A paradox is a literary device that uses two opposing thoughts which may appear senseless, but turns out that it contains a kind of truth in it. A consonance is also a literary device by the repetition of consonant sounds within sentences, phrases or poems. From the given question above, the line that contains both paradox and consonance is option D: At least to know the worst is sweet.
Hilda 'H.D.' Doolittle, Ezra Pound, and Richard Aldington were the pioneers of modernist poetry, writing in rejection of the formalism of Victorian poetry and European society. World War I had a profound effect on the further development of the modernist movement. The poetry that followed World War I reflected the disillusionment of those who had experienced the tragedy and horror of modern combat. T.S. Eliot's 'The Wasteland' is an example of the disjointed and fragmented verse arising from this disillusionment.
