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What is the literary device used in this quote?

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Carla0 July 16, 2015 0 Comments

‘Hope and despair, optimism and rage. I couldn’t seem to climb off this emotional rollercoaster’.

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English Tutor2.75K Posted September 12, 2015 0 Comments

This quote has used oxymoron because it contains contradictory words joined together, hope and despair and optimism and rage.

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