Absolute full parallelism based on a reversal idea
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and
knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
(Samuel Johnson)
Though Samuel Johnson’s statement does not contain any single antonymous pair, the whole
sentence still consists of antithetical clauses based on the inverse construction of the beginning phrase
of each clause (
integrity without knowledge
vs
knowledge without integrity
) what makes the idea
reverse. As we deal with the purely contextual antithesis, the words:
weak
–
dangerous, useless
–
dreadful
become contextual antonyms.
III. While analyzing the material, we came across a very interesting example of a set of
antitheses used in one paragraph. As in the case of an oxymoron (a stanza of oxymora), we call this
case “
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