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antithesis

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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."
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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.
The Categories by Aristotle View in context
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.
The Man in the Iron Mask by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Few men exhibit greater diversity, or, if we may so express it, greater antithesis of character, than the native warrior of North America.
The Last of The Mohicans by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
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