ANTITHESIS/ PARALLELISM

Antithesis defined:
literal meaning opposite, is a rhetorical device in which two opposite ideas are put together in a sentence to achieve a contrasting effect.

COMMON ANTITHESIS EXAMPLES

• Love an ideal thing marriage a real thing
• You are easy on the eyes but hard on the heart
• Man proposes God disposes
• Patience is bitter but its fruit sweet
• These are all polar opposites creating a contrast effect

Examples in literature:
Alexander pope wrote
"To err is human to Forgive divine"

PARRALLELISM

Parallelism defined: The use of components in a sentence that are grammatically the same; or similar in their construction, sound, meaning or meter. Parallelism examples are found in literary works as well as in ordinary conversations.

PARALLELISM EXMAPLES

• Like father like son
• Easy come easy go
• Flying is fast comortable and safe
• Whether at home or work Captain was always busy

Parallelism in literature:by William Blake
“What the hammer? what the chain?
In what furnace was thy brain?
What the anvil? what dread grasp
Dare its deadly terrors clasp?”