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kari74 [83]
3 years ago
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Which two phrases in this excerpt from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" are oxymorons?

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svet-max [94.6K]3 years ago
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The 2 phrases from Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Criticism" which are oxymorons are the following:

The Bookful Blockhead, ignorantly read / With Loads of Learned Lumber in his Head

An Essay on Criticism is the most quoted poem in the English Language and offers a lot of insight to the belief of Pope and into Pope’s culture in writing.


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