. . "Antithesis (Greek for \"setting opposite\", from \u1F00\u03BD\u03C4\u03AF \"against\" + \u03B8\u03AD\u03C3\u03B9\u03C2 \"position\") is used in writing or speech either as a proposition that contrasts with or reverses some previously mentioned proposition, or when two opposites are introduced together for contrasting effect.Antithesis can be defined as \"a figure of speech involving a seeming contradiction of ideas, words, clauses, or sentences within a balanced grammatical structure."@en . . . .