Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 7 AIL 0638 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Antithesis
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The idea
Antithesis sets two opposed ideas in parallel grammatical form, so that the structure carries the contrast. The glossary gives it no headword. It belongs to the eighteenth century especially, and Pope's couplets are built from it, which unit eighteen takes up.
In practice
Opposed ideas, parallel structure.
Where people slip
The structure carries the contrast.
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