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A figure of speech placing two ideas that are very different in meaning, together. This is used in rhetoric to balance out contrasting ideas in parallel arrangements of words.

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Antithesis is a figure of speech placing two ideas that are very different in meaning, together. This is used in rhetoric to balance out contrasting ideas in parallel arrangements of words.
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