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What is an antithesis?

What is an antithesis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
  2. (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.
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Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life.
Yet Edward always saw reconciliation in the form of its antithesis or opposite.
Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art.
Here I was in this tiny ramshackle village, St Paul's, the complete antithesis of the metropolis.
An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism.
The new antithesis forms out of elements of the original contradiction that didn't make it into the synthesis.

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