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In Rhetoric , it is a Figure Of Speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the Idea s by an obvious contrast in the Word s, Clause s, or Sentence s, within a parallel grammatical structure, as in the following:---"When there is need of silence, you speak, and when there is need of speech, you are dumb; when present, you wish to be absent, and when absent, you desire to be present; in peace you are for war, and in war you long for peace; in council you descant on bravery, and in the battle you tremble." 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 is sometimes double or alternate, as in the appeal of Augustus:--"Listen, young men, to an old man to whom old men were glad to listen when he was young." In grammatical usage, antithesis is often expressed by means of an Antonym , such as ''high'' - ''low'', ''to shout'' - ''to whisper'', ''lightness'' - ''heaviness'', &c.; but the force of the antithesis is increased if the words on which the beat of the contrast falls are alliterative, or otherwise similar in sound, as--"The fairest but the falsest of her sex." Among English writers who have made the most abundant use of antithesis are Pope, Young, Johnson, and Gibbon; and especially Lyly in his ''Euphues''. It is, however, a much more common feature in French than in English; while in German, with some striking exceptions, it is conspicuous by its absence. A simplistic description of Dialectic s is '' Thesis , antithesis, Synthesis ''. '''''The ). The antithesis arises from the turn of phrase, repeated with minor variations in each of the six sayings, "Ye have heard that it hath been said... But I say unto you...". Antithesis was the name given by Marcion to a document in which he contrasted the Old Testament with the New Testament . See also: Alternative Hypothesis Antithesis also is known as the idea of A cannot equal not-A. This is used in philosophy as an inverse of relativism; relativism says that A can equal not-A. REFERENCES |