contextual antithesis
. This group can also be divided into two
subgroups: a) examples of full parallelism containing another stylistic device, b) examples of
absolutely full parallel constructions based on a reversal idea.
a)
Full parallelism – antithesis + another stylistic device
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
(Martin Luther King, Jr.)
Though the words
brother
and
fool
cannot be considered as an antonymous pair, in this
particular context they become contextual antonyms and consecutive clauses can be regarded as a
contextual antithesis. Meanwhile, the sentence also contains another stylistic device, namely zeugma.
Thus, the same phrase appears to be the lexical and syntactic stylistic device simultaneously.
b)
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