谈英语中的Antithesis

Antithesis is the deliberate arrangement of contrasting words, ideas, or the balancing of one thing against another opposing or contrasting thing. what is contrasted may be words, phrases, clauses, sentenees even paragraphs or whole sections of a literary work ; but antithesis most often consists ha the contrast between two parts of a sentence. When we say“ Art is long ; life is short,“ “He was a good teacher but a bad student“ we are employing antithesis.