ANTITHESIS

Hareshwar Roy,

QUESTION:
What do you mean by Antithesis?
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]


Location: B-37, City Homes Colony, Jawahar Nagar Satna, Madhya Pradesh, India
Currently Dr. Roy is working as Professor of English at Govt. P.G. College Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He is the author of the following books: (1) Diasporic Articulation in the Novels of M.G. Vassanji (2) A Study of M.G. Vassanji 's Novels (3) Varieties of Indianity in the Works of M.G. Vassanji & Rohinton Mistry (4)Diaspora & Indian Diaspora: A Brief Study (5) Short Notes of English Literature - I (6) Short Notes of English Literature - II (7) हमार पहचान ह भोजपुरी - भोजपुरी कविता संकलन (8) हमरा प्यार हो गइल - भोजपुरी गज़ल संकलन (9) भोजपुरी कविताएँ

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