Thus the lesson necessarily continues.
What is clear is that very little attention has been paid to the usage of language, English in general and literary usage in particular. Language is used to convey information, emotion, point of view, and many, many other concepts . Language may have many forms of usage and intent.
Among the variety of intents may be to convey information directly or indirectly. Among these are three relevant to my original Post.
The first is Paradox:
Paradox:
a statement whose two parts seem contradictory yet make sense with more thought. "They have ears but hear not." Or in ordinary conversation, we might use a paradox, "Deep down he's really very shallow."
Paradox attracts the reader's or the listener's attention and gives emphasis.
The second is allusion:
An
allusion: a brief reference to a person, event, place, or phrase.
The writer assumes the reader will recognize the reference. For instance, most of us Americans would know the difference between a mechanic's being as reliable as George Washington or as reliable as Benedict Arnold. Allusions that are commonplace for readers in one era or place may require footnotes for readers in a later time or different places.
The third is metaphor:
Metaphor: A figure of speech "
in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action, so as to suggest some common quality shared by the two." The term, "metaphor" is often reserved for figures of speech in which the comparison is implicit or phrased as an "imaginary identity," but it has become more common in recent years to refer to all figures of speech that depend upon resemblances as metaphors. You will therefore sometimes hear similes, where the comparison is explicit and no identity is implied, referred to as metaphorical figures. All metaphors, in any case, are based on the implicit formula, phrased as a simile, "X is like Y." The primary literal term of the metaphor is called the "tenor" and the secondary figurative term is the "vehicle." "[I]n the metaphor the road of life, the tenor is "life" and the vehicle is "the road"
Now that stated, we address the usage of "Internal Paradox." I state, as I did with "metaphorically speaking" the words "internal" and paradox" are
not incongruous or
contradictory terms and, thus, do NOT meet the definition of an "oxymoron."
In this case the phrase was, at the same time, paradoxical (literally so in this case
) because more "thought" would have made the meaning clear; allusive, because it was "reasonable" to assume a reverser would understand a reference to "Internal Paradox," which is a group and not a metaphysical event; and,finally, metaphorical because it was "A figure of speech "
in which one thing, idea, or action (the group) is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, i.e an "internal," as opposed to an "external" paradox, or even an internal-external paradox.
For examples:
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/r21270/cv/Hands_on.html
Is there any measurable learning from hands-on concordancing?
"Another reason is that a particularly fatal form of the
internal-external paradox makes controlled studies of very novel learning media very difficult-learners must get used to a new medium over time, yet with time confounding of variables is almost inevitable, particularly in self-access settings."
and
http://www.everyauthor.com/forum/faq.php:
The Untitled Forum: A Writer's Workshop Home
"Why The Untitled Forum?
Apart from the pleasing tension of its mild
internal paradox, we chose to title the forum The Untitled Forum to help give a hint as to its purpose, namely to provide a community for writers eager to enlist the aide of other writers in improving whatever writings they happen to be writing at the time. In other words, this is a place to hone your skills and fine-tune your works-in-progress, not merely to showcase your latest oeuvre for the delight and edification of a sycophantic audience. That's what The New Yorker is for."
Are their any further questions before I grade your papers?
Regards,
Metaphorically speaking, of course. 
