ANTITHESIS
QUESTION:
What do you mean by
ANSWER:
Antithesis is the setting of one
thing against another. In this rhetorical figure, contrast of ideas are sharply
and vividly expressed within a balanced grammatical structure.
For example:
[1]
Give me liberty, or give me death.
[2] He can bribe, but he can't seduce;
he can buy, but he can't gain; He can lie,
but he can't deceive.
[3] A friend exaggerates a man's virtue,
an enemy his crimes.
[4] A bird in hand is worth two in the
bush.
[5] Worth makes the man, and want of it,
the fellow;
The rest is all but leather or
prunella. [Pope: An Essay On Criticism]
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