The warmly cool, clear, ringing, perfumed, overflowing, redundant days, were as crystal goblets of Persian sherbet, heaped up --flaked up, with rose-water snow.
Definition of PARADOX for Kids. 1. : a statement that seems to say opposite things and yet is perhaps true. 2. : a person or thing having qualities that seem to be opposite.
Such is the case with irony and paradox. Actual Definitions of Irony and Paradox. Irony ââ refers to real or literary situations or conversations where the evident meaning of a statement or action is incongruous with its intended meaning. Paradox ââ refers to a statement that defies intuition as it leads to seemingly irreconcilable contradictions.