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Figures of Speech: Contrast Examples

This document defines and provides examples of 7 figures of speech based on contrast: antithesis, epigram, paradox, oxymoron, irony, euphemism, and litotes. Each figure is defined in 1-2 sentences and accompanied by 2 examples. Overall, the document categorizes and illustrates different types of figures of speech that involve contrasting ideas, words, or feelings.

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Figures of Speech: Contrast Examples

This document defines and provides examples of 7 figures of speech based on contrast: antithesis, epigram, paradox, oxymoron, irony, euphemism, and litotes. Each figure is defined in 1-2 sentences and accompanied by 2 examples. Overall, the document categorizes and illustrates different types of figures of speech that involve contrasting ideas, words, or feelings.

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Figures of Speech Based on Contrast Examples

Figures of Speech Based on Contrast Examples - Figures of Speech based on contrast can be divided into
seven. They are Antithesis, Epigram, Paradox, Oxymoron, Irony, Euphemism, and Litotes.

Antithesis
Antithesis is a figure in which a striking opposition of contrast of words or feelings is made in the same
sentence.

Examples of Antithesis:

-Man proposes, God disposes.

-Men must work and women must weep.

Epigram
Epigram is a brief pointed saying often in poetical from, frequently introducing antithetical ideas which
excite surprise and arrrest attention.

Examples of Epigram:

-Familiraty breeds contempt.

-A gift is never little.

Paradox
Paradox is a figure of speech in which a truth is conveyed under the form of an apparent absurdity of
contradiction.

Exampes of Paradox:

-The child is father of the man.

-More haste, less speed.

Oxymoron
Oxymoron is a figure by which two contradictory qualities are predicted at once of the same thing. (An
adjective is added to a word of quite a contrary meaning)

Examples of Oxymoron:

-She accepted it as the kind cruelty of the surgeon’s knife.


-He is an honorable villain.

Irony
Irony is the use of words, the natural meaning of which is just the opposite of what is intended to be
expressed.

Examples of Irony:

-What a fine friend to forsake others in trouble.

-i fear I wrong the honourable men whose actions have put me into trouble.

Euphemism
Euphemism is a figure by means of which we speak in pleasing or favourable terms of an unpleasant or
bad thing.

Examples of Euphemism:

-He has gone to an unreturned land.

-He was a gentleman of the roads.

Litotes
Litotes is the use of a negative to express a strong affirmative of the opposite kind.

Examples of Litotes:

-He was not all unhappy.

-She is not the ugly duckling of her family.

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