Which lines are the examples of Antithesis
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Examples of Antithesis in Speech
Give all men your ear, but few men your voice.
Love is an ideal thing but marriage is a real thing.
Speech is silver but silence is golden.
Examples of Antithesis in Literature
A tale of two cities by Charles Dickens opens with the use of antithesis in the line “Twas the very best in times, Twas the very worst in times. That was a time of wisdom and yet a time of foolishness.” In this example, antithesis is used to imply the conflict of the time in which the story was set.
“To err is human, to forgive is divine,” This is a line from the play Julius Caesar written by William Shakespeare. Here antithesis is used to refer to the fact that God the creator is forgiving yet he created a race of humans who were far from perfect.
Explanation:
Antithesis is used to express opposing ideas in a more vivid fashion in order that it has more of an impact on the person listening to or reading the language.