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antithesis (ăntĭth`ĭsĭs), a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure. Parallelism of expression serves to emphasize opposition of ideas. The familiar phrase "Man proposes, God disposes" is an example of antithesis, as is John Dryden's description in "The Hind and the Panther": "Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell." antithesis Philosophy the second stage in the Hegelian dialectic contradicting the thesis before resolution by the synthesis How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| There is the same type of antithesis in both cases; for just as blindness is opposed to sight, so is being blind opposed to having sight. But we shall, on the present occasion, carefully avoid polishing the antithesis in question, but shall proceed to draw another picture as minutely as possible, to serve as foil and counterfoil to the one in the preceding chapter. Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America. |
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