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Vietnam Literary Journalism

Question 3 • Language Arts 11 2014 - ELA3011 B-IC

Which excerpt from Dispatches is an example of paradox?

Answer
A
And at night it was beautiful. Even the incoming was beautiful at night, beautiful and deeply dreadful.
B
One hit anywhere in the chopper would bring you back, bitten lips, white knuckles and all, and then you knew where you were.
C
At night you could lie out on some sandbags and watch the C-47’s mounted with Vulcans doing their work.
D
At night in Khe Sanh, waiting there, thinking about all of them (40,000, some said), thinking that they might really try it, could keep you up.
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