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This helpful guide will show you how to use antithesis in a sentence. It will show you the definition of antithesis , as well as synonyms, antonyms, and the type of connotation that the word can carry.
Definition: the opposite of something
Part(s) of speech: noun
Antonyms: same; similar; alike
Synonyms: contrast; inverse; counter
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Writers and speechmakers use the traditional pattern known as antithesis for its resounding effect; John Kennedy's famous "ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country" is an example. But antithesis normally means simply "opposite". Thus, war is the antithesis of peace, wealth is the antithesis of poverty, and love is the antithesis of hate. Holding two antithetical ideas in one's head at the same time—for example, that you're the sole master of your fate but also the helpless victim of your terrible upbringing—is so common as to be almost normal.
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Late Latin, from Greek, literally, opposition, from antitithenai to oppose, from anti- + tithenai to set — more at do
1529, in the meaning defined at sense 1b(1)
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“Antithesis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary , Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/antithesis. Accessed 12 Jun. 2024.
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Welcome to this week’s edition of the Surge, a newsletter whose 150 meals a year at Morton’s the Steakhouse suddenly look like child’s play .
Speaking of child’s play, we’ve got an actual child in the Surge this week. Also, the antithesis of a child, in Joe Biden. And the rapper 50 Cent!! It’s almost like it’s summer. Plus: Another update from the United Kingdom, a land of horrors.
Let’s begin, though, with a sneaky good primary in Virginia, featuring all of the Surge’s favorite friends.
By Jim Newell
The Virginia primary for Rep. Bob Good, the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, is fast becoming one of the most delightful of the cycle. If you’ll recall from last week’s edition, Trump had endorsed Good’s opponent, John McGuire, likely in retaliation for Good’s endorsement of Ron DeSantis (and leaked private criticism of Trump) in the presidential primary. But this has expanded beyond a one-on-one feud between Good and Trump. A host of Freedom Caucus(–adjacent) members and typical Trump ride-or-dies, including Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz , have endorsed and are campaigning for Good. Trump, meanwhile, has sent Good’s campaign a cease-and-desist letter instructing it to stop giving out yard signs that suggest that Good has Trump’s backing. Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who has endorsed McGuire, released a video this week standing next to one of the (indeed, very deceiving) yard signs on the side of a road. Trump, in a video of his own this week, reiterated his support for McGuire, saying that Good “will stab you in the back like he did me.” The primary is June 18. Let’s hope that it continues to get uglier until then, for the purposes of having fun on the internet.
Last week, we wrote about how no one could immediately predict how the Trump guilty verdict in New York would affect the election given the unprecedented nature of the situation, and that anyone who made a confident prediction was a liar who should go to jail. (More on jail later.) But now seven days have passed, and the Surge is officially lifting the embargo on gabbin’ about polls. Several surveys showed Biden picking up a point or two on Trump in the week after the verdict. New York Times polling freak Nate Cohn, after poring through raw strands of code, gave “an equivocal ‘yes’ ”—mmm, sweet, sweet equivocation—to the question of whether the verdict had changed anyone’s mind. In a New York Times/Siena College poll, which reinterviewed those who had previously taken the poll, Trump’s margin of support over Biden dipped from 3 points to 1. That’s not an especially handsome difference, but there was a good sign for Biden under the hood. Among those most likely to shift were “young, nonwhite and disengaged Democratic-leaning voters,” whose soft support for Biden relative to 2020 has been a major factor in Trump’s polling leads this year. This is not to say that the conviction particularly stunned these voters into thinking that Trump may not be such a swell guy after all, but the news coverage may have jolted them a bit from disengagement to engagement. That this will happen more and more down the stretch is, essentially, the Biden team’s theory of the campaign. So it may be not that the verdict itself changes the trajectory of the election on its own, but that it’s the first in a series of events over the next five months that could provide the Holy shit, Trump could be president again! moments the Biden campaign needs.
The hottest new celebrity in Washington this week was 6-year-old Guy Rose, the son of Tennessee Rep. John Rose. (We believe that this makes Rose the youngest-ever entrant on the Surge, perhaps with the exception of one of Biden’s psychotic dogs.) On Monday, while the elder Rose was delivering a House floor speech lambasting the criminal conviction of Donald Trump, his son was seated behind him , making silly faces for the camera. Guy Rose then went on something of a press tour after getting some “media training” from a Rose staffer. He told the Washington Post that his father’s speech had been “so boring” and Fox News that it was “boring stuff.” He also tried to explain that his gestures had been intended to spell the letters S-A-M as a message to his younger brother and to make him laugh. The paparazzi also caught him rolling around on the White House lawn during the annual congressional picnic on Tuesday. He did an interview with the Wall Street Journal. He was, within a couple of days, significantly more famous than his father.
50 Cent was at the Capitol this week! You will know this if you follow any congressional reporter, because they all got their pictures taken with the rapper. Mr. Cent was there to take meetings with both Democrats and Republicans to talk about growing Black entrepreneurship in the spirits industry—but also to tweet a ton of pictures with lawmakers, including Speaker Mike Johnson, Majority Leader Steve Scalise, and former Speaker Nancy Pelosi . His thirstiest post , though, was with Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert, who, he wrote, was “making the white house look good,” with a smirking emoji. He later followed that up with another post, which we will simply copy-paste : “Wait, wait, guys, i took pictures with everyone and all you seem to care about is Lauren … what she do in a dark theater that hasn’t been done, my God ! Hey I don’t have chlamydia by the way. LOL.” Just name the week, 50 Cent, and you’re guest-writing the Surge. He also made some headlines, telling a CBS News reporter that he sees Black men “identifying with Trump” in the upcoming election “because they got RICO charges.” Dum dee dum, next entry …
Speaker Mike Johnson made an eye-popping personnel decision this week, when he appointed Reps. Scott Perry, a former Freedom Caucus chairman whose phone was seized by the FBI in 2022, and Ronny Jackson, a former White House doctor with a colorful history in that position and the sort of person who has a “2023 Texas rodeo incident” section on his Wikipedia page, to the House Intelligence Committee. Further, Johnson didn’t tip off the committee chair, Rep. Michael Turner, about his decisions before he announced them, and he skipped over other, more normal-brained members for the appointment. Appointing two members not particularly known for their levelheadedness to a committee charged with serious work has not gone over well on either the Republican or Democratic side of the aisle. So why did Johnson do it? For the same reason any House Republican does anything: “because Trump wanted him to,” as Punchbowl News reported . But that’s probably it, right? Trump’s a modest guy. He doesn’t like to ask for too many favors from the people he controls.
Steve Bannon, the former Trump White House aide turned Trump enemy turned Trump friend and MAGA media maven, got some poor news this week: He might have to go to jail after all. Just a tough break. Bannon had been convicted of contempt of Congress in 2022 for his refusal to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 committee and was sentenced to four months in jail. The judge had paused his sentence while Bannon appealed, however, giving him more time to spend in the podcast booth. This week, though, the same federal judge determined that Bannon would have to report to jail by July 1 after a circuit court rejected Bannon’s arguments. Bannon vowed to keep fighting his sentence, to take it “all the way to the Supreme Court if we have to.” Well, we hope he has a nice time with that. But he should really just go now so he can be back in action just in time for the closing month of the election! Think of all the #content he would miss if he didn’t leave jail until the beginning of November.
For the second time in three weeks, His Majesty’s Surge—that cheeky bugger—has artfully dodged its way into this edition. As we know, the Tories, after being in power for 14 years, are a few short weeks away from losing by 1 million points in the July 4 general election. Among their problems is a complete and unbreakable disdain among the British public for everything they do. And this week, they fucked up a photo op. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak left the international celebration of the 80 th anniversary of D-Day early to return home and film a television interview. That left the U.K. government’s foreign secretary, the right honorable Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton , to stand in for him in photos with fellow world leaders Joe Biden, Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelensky, and Olaf Scholz. Sunak’s premature departure irritated everyone in Britain and earned him the reprimand, from a 98-year-old D-Day veteran, that Sunak had let the country down . That’s very poor press a few weeks ahead of a general election. Sunak apologized and added , “It’s important, though, given the enormity of the sacrifice made, that we don’t politicize this.” Do not make political hay out of the political leader’s mistake—unless you hate the troops.
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Here's a quick and simple definition: Antithesis is a figure of speech that juxtaposes two contrasting or opposing ideas, usually within parallel grammatical structures. For instance, Neil Armstrong used antithesis when he stepped onto the surface of the moon in 1969 and said, "That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind ...
Antithesis is typically achieved through parallel structure, in which opposing concepts or elements are paired in adjacent phrases, clauses, or sentences. This draws the reader's attention to the significance or importance of the agents being contrasted, thereby adding a memorable and meaningful quality to the literary work.
An antithesis is just that—an "anti" "thesis.". An antithesis is used in writing to express ideas that seem contradictory. An antithesis uses parallel structure of two ideas to communicate this contradiction. Example of Antithesis: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee." -Muhammad Ali. This example of antithesis is a famous ...
Antithesis is the use of contrasting concepts, words, or sentences within parallel grammatical structures. This combination of a balanced structure with opposite ideas serves to highlight the contrast between them. For example, the following famous Muhammad Ali quote is an example of antithesis: "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.".
How to Use Antithesis in Your Writing: Definition and Examples of Antithesis as a Literary Device. Written by MasterClass. Last updated: Sep 29, 2021 • 3 min read. The English language is full of literary devices that can enliven your writing. One tool used often in literature and politics is called antithesis. Articles. Videos.
Antithesis performs a very similar function, but does so in a more complicated way by using full sentences (rather than single words or images) to express the two halves of the juxtaposition. Here is an antithesis built around some of the common expressions from above "Sheep go to Heaven; goats go to Hell."
The purpose of antithesis is to create a stark contrast between the two ideas, often to emphasize a point or to create a sense of tension or conflict. For example, one famous example of antithesis comes from Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities": "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.".
Word association tests give ample evidence of the consistent linking of opposites in verbal memory when subjects given one of a pair of antonyms most often respond with the other, 'hot' triggering 'cold' or 'long' retrieving 'short' (Miller 1991, 196). An antithesis as a figure of speech at the sentence level builds on these powerful natural ...
We will now take a look at some examples of sentences in which antithesis is present. Give all men your ear, but few men your voice. Love is an ideal thing but marriage is a real thing. Speech is silver but silence is golden. Patience is bitter but it bears sweet fruit.
8. The taste of the day -not yet emancipated from the influence of the Sicilian rhetoric -probably demanded a large use of antithesis. 4. 2. The stimulus of contradiction is no doubt a strong one; but the easiest way of escaping it is to shut our eyes to one side of the antithesis. 4.
June 23, 2023. Antithesis is a rhetorical device that involves contrasting two opposing ideas in a sentence or a paragraph. It is a powerful tool used in literature, speeches, and debates to emphasize the difference between two ideas. The word antithesis is derived from the Greek word "antitithenai," which means "to oppose" or "to set ...
An antithesis is a figure of speech that states strongly contrasting ideas placed in juxtaposition. They contain compound sentences with the two independent clauses separated by a comma or a semicolon, in most cases. However, there are also instances where the antithesis is a compound sentence with a conjunction. Q2.
The word antithesis is sometimes used to mean 'opposite'. For example, "She is slim and sporty - the very antithesis of her brother". However, 'antithesis' (or 'antitheses' if plural) is also the name given to a particular rhetorical or literary device. In this blog post, we'll be looking at 'antithesis' in its role as ...
Familiar antithesis examples: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.". "No pain, no gain.". "Out of sight, out of mind.". The word "antithesis" comes from the Greek word meaning "setting opposite," which is an idea that has been used in various forms. Let's look at those various forms in more ...
Antithesis is the use of words that are opposite or contrasting in meaning. For example, to be or not to be. Antithesis is used in writing to create a dramatic effect. Contrary to what you might think, an antithetical statement can enhance a passage instead of detracting from it. It helps to show two sides of an argument and bring balance to ...
Antithesis definition: opposition; contrast. See examples of ANTITHESIS used in a sentence.
Antithesis is the term used to refer to an author's use of two contrasting or opposite terms in a sentence for effect. The two terms are set near each other to enhance or highlight the contrast in opposite meaning. Sometimes, characters in literary works are the antithesis of each other. The two characters are shown as opposites in order to highlight the good qualities of one and the evil ...
This helpful guide will show you how to use antithesis in a sentence.It will show you the definition of antithesis, as well as synonyms, antonyms, and the type of connotation that the word can carry.. Usage for antithesis. Definition: the opposite of something Part(s) of speech: noun Antonyms: same; similar; alike Synonyms: contrast; inverse; counter Here are but a few sample sentences of the ...
Rhetorical antithesis. In rhetoric, antithesis is a figure of speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure.. The term "antithesis" in rhetoric goes back to the 4th century BC, for example Aristotle, Rhetoric, 1410a, in which he gives a series of examples.
antithesis: [noun] the direct opposite. the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in "action, not words" or "they promised freedom and provided slavery"). opposition, contrast. the second of two opposing words, clauses, or sentences that are being rhetorically contrasted.
Word Origin late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai 'set against', from anti 'against' + tithenai 'to place'. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th cent.
Examples of ANTITHESIS in a sentence, how to use it. 99 examples: In the world today we face two great economic antitheses. - Economic…
50 Cent was at the Capitol this week! You will know this if you follow any congressional reporter, because they all got their pictures taken with the rapper.