• Literal language doesn't pulla any punches. It means just what it says
• Figurative language, never means what it says.

obj 2: explain the difference between irony, contradiction, and paradox

• Irony: the intentional use of contradiction to emphasize or make light of something by saying or doing the opposite of what one intends.
•  can be the most difficult to detect.
• Contradiction: Either of two propositions related in such way that it is impossible for both to be true or both to be false.
• simple contradictions:( ones that aren't ironic or paradoxical) are not intentional. They are mistakes and may be difficult to spot.
• Contradiction in terms: occurs when an author defines a term in one way and then uses it in another, usually opposite way.
• ie: authoritarian parents are non-loving then say that they are like that because they love their kids.
• Paradox: distinguished from a simple contadiction and an ironic statement by the fact taht its seemingly contradictory but my nonetheless be true.
• ex: do without doing- look for car keys and can't find them. u give up and u find them. "I am lying" - if the statement is true, then it's false

• Identifying the ambiguous wording
• evaluating the ambiguity
• teasing out the finite or infinite readings of an ambiguous passage.
• reading for ambiguity is about looking for where the author has opened the door to possibility.