Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

Anticlimax
– the decrease of tension.
Antithesis
(stylistic opposition) is a SD based on the author's desire to stress 
certain qualities of the thing by appointing it to another thing possessing antagonistic 
features. 
e. g. They speak like saints and act like devils. 
The aim is to make contrast.
Antithesis 
is a stylistic device which is based on the opposition of concepts. 
There are logical and stylistic opposition. Logical opposition implies the use of 
dictionary antonyms, i.e. words that are contrary in meaning to others: 
white – black, 
day – night, long – short, young – old, 
etc. 
Stylistic opposition is based on relatively opposition which arises out of the 
context through the expansion of objectively contrasting pairs, as in: 
Youth is lovely, age is lonely, 
Youth is fiery, age is frosty.
(Longfellow) 
Here the objectively contrasted pairs are “
youth - age
”, “
fiery – frosty
”. “Lovely 
and Lonely” cannot be regarded as objectively opposite concepts. 
It is not only semantic aspect which explains the linguistic nature of antithesis, 
the structural pattern also plays an important role. Antithesis is generally molded in 
parallel constructions: 
“We are young, friend, like 
flowers, 
You are old, friend, 
like the tree
, 
What concern have you with ours? 
You are 
dying
, we,re 
to be 
It is very true, I’m 
dying
, 
You are 
roses
 still in
bud
… ”
(J. Mansfield). 
In this poem antithesis is based on the following oppositions: 
young – old, 
flowers – trees, dying – to be; 
only the first opposition 
“young – old ” 
may be 

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considered as dictionary antonyms, the rest are contextual antonyms, and bring 
emphasis to the whole poem. 
The use of antithesis built on the contextual antonyms is clearly seen in the next 
example: 
“They speak like