what is the definition of antithesis?

Answer 1

It's a definition of the opposite of.

If someone is depressed they are the antihesis of a happy bubbly person

Answer 2

Antithesis Pronunciation

Answer 3

Antithesis (Greek for "setting opposite", from ἀντί against + θέσις position) means a direct contrast or exact opposition to something. Hell is the antithesis of Heaven; disorder is the antithesis of order.

In rhetoric, it is a figure of speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure, as in the following:---"When there is need of silence, you speak, and when there is need of speech, you are dumb; when present, you wish to be absent, and when absent, you desire to be present; in peace you are for war, and in war you long for peace; in council you descant on bravery, and in the battle you tremble."

The familiar phrase “Man proposes, God disposes” is an example of antithesis, as is John Dryden's description in “The Hind and the Panther”: “Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell.”

Answer 4

It is the diametric opposition of thesis. Anything posited being a thesis, the antithesis will negate. Smash the two together, you get the synthesis. Look up Socratic dialectic, that would help.

Answer 5

Antithesis (Greek for "setting opposite"), means a direct contrast or exact opposition to something. Hell is the antithesis of Heaven; disorder is the antithesis of order.

In rhetoric, it is a figure of speech involving the bringing out of a contrast in the ideas by an obvious contrast in the words, clauses, or sentences, within a parallel grammatical structure, as in the following:---"When there is need of silence, you speak, and when there is need of speech, you are dumb; when present, you wish to be absent, and when absent, you desire to be present; in peace you are for war, and in war you long for peace; in council you descant on bravery, and in the battle you tremble."

The familiar phrase “Man proposes, God disposes” is an example of antithesis, as is John Dryden's description in “The Hind and the Panther”: “Too black for heaven, and yet too white for hell.”

Antithesis is sometimes double or alternate, as in the appeal of Augustus:--"Listen, young men, to an old man to whom old men were glad to listen when he was young."

In grammatical usage, antithesis is often expressed by means of an antonym, such as high - low, to shout - to whisper, lightness - heaviness, &c.; but the force of the antithesis is increased if the words on which the beat of the contrast falls are alliterative, or otherwise similar in sound, as--"The fairest but the falsest of her sex."

Among English writers who have made the most abundant use of antithesis are Pope, Young, Johnson, and Gibbon; and especially Lyly in his Euphues. It is, however, a much more common feature in French than in English; while in German, with some striking exceptions, it is conspicuous by its absence.

A simplistic description of dialectics is thesis, antithesis, synthesis.

Answer 6

an‧tith‧e‧sis  /ænˈtɪθəsɪs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[an-tith-uh-sis] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -ses /-ˌsiz/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[-seez] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation.
1.opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong.
2.the direct opposite (usually fol. by of or to): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly.
3.Rhetoric.
a.the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in “Give me liberty or give me death.”
b.the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as “or give me death.”
4.Philosophy. See under Hegelian dialectic.
[Origin: 1520–30; < L < Gk: opposition, equiv. to anti(ti)thé(nai) to oppose + -sis -sis. See anti-, thesis]

Answer 7

It's the opposite view or opinion of the thesis statement. The combination of the two is called the synthesis.