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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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These dudes seem the antithesis of the greed-is-good ethic which made Wall Street's Gordon Gekko the antichrist of 1980s' conspicuous wealth.
Here I was in this tiny ramshackle village, St Paul's, the complete antithesis of the metropolis.
The Edmonton Oilers dynasty of the 1980s was the direct antithesis of the Flyers.
An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism.
He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art.

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