Antithesis



         


Antithesis is a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a antonym, such as high - low, to shout - to whisper, lightness - heaviness, etc.

A simplistic description of dialectics is thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

See also: alternative hypothesis






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