Antithesis
is a figure in which one word or idea is set against another in a balanced form
so as to give emphasis to a particular idea. White seems more white when it is
placed by the side of black. The darkness of the sky adds to the brilliance of
the flash of lightning. In composition, in the same way, the statement of
contrast makes a proposition more forceful.
Examples of Antithesis:
Marriage has many pains,
but celibacy has no pleasures.
(Samuel Jonson- Rasselas)
Youth is full of
pleasure, age is full of care.
United we stand,
divided we fall.