What is the difference between a contradiction, a paradox, and irony? Can someone help me understand the difference between each of these words?

Contradiction is a conflict between two ideas. Paradox means using two opposite ideas together in a text for emphasis like the poem Fire and Ice by Robert Frost. Irony is saying one thing that means something different usually to criticise.

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