Antithesis

ANTITHESIS-using opposite words in a statement to bring out the difference in meaning. Or two characters who are the complete opposites of each other.

Example: --Dumbledore and Voldemort in Harry Potter. Dumbledore is friendly and nice while Voldemort is evil and cruel. --It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; It was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness. - Charles Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities" Snow White and the Wicked Witch in // Snow White, //Marcus Brutus and Mark Antony in // Julius Caesar // by William Shakespeare, and give every man thy ear, but few thy voice. - // Hamlet // by William Shakespeare

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 * Antithesis ** is a figure of speech which refers to the juxtaposition of opposing or contrasting ideas. It involves the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure.
 * "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind." - //Neil Armstrong.// http://www.myenglishpages.com/site_php_files/writing-antithesis.php

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