What is a paradox? the audience or reader knows or understands something that a character does not know a statement or situation that seems to be contradictory but actually presents a truth an author or character says one thing but means something else an inconsistency between what the audience or reader expects and what actually happens

The literature of nineteenth-century realism depicted everyday life in a realistic way. which statements show that leo tolstoy’s the death of ivan ilyich is a realist text? the description of human struggles in the form of ivan ilyich’s suffering the faithfulness of relationships that ivan ilyich experiences toward the end of his life the romantic tension that occurs between ivan ilyich and his wife the difference between superficial and authentic living the plot ending with a surprising turn of events