Uzbekistan state university of world languages the first english language faculty the department of english phonetics and phonology

FIGURES OF OPPOSITION

    This group of semasiological SD is characterized by the combination in context of two or more words or word-groups with opposite meanings. Their relations are either objectively opposite or are interpreted as such by the speaker. Here we refer antithesis and oxymoron.

    Antithesis (Greek - opposition) in Uzbek TAZOD is a stylistic device which presents two contrasting ideas in close proximity in order to stress the contrast. There are several variants of antithesis based on different relations of the ideas expressed:
1) opposition of features possessed by the same referent, e.g. Some people have much to live on, and little to live for (O.Wilde);
2) opposition of two or more different referents having contrasting features, e.g. Their pre-money wives did not go together with their post-money daughters /E.Hemingway/;