This figure of speech gives animation to the style. _Examples_:
O Rome, Rome, thou hast been a tender nurse to me. Blow,
winds, and crack your cheeks. Take her, O Bridegroom, old and gray!
6. Antithesis. The preceding figures have been based on likeness.
_Antithesis_ is a figure of speech in which opposites are contrasted,
or one thing is set against another. Contrast is almost as powerful as
comparison in making our ideas clear and vivid.
_Examples_: (Macaulay, more than any other writer, habitually uses
antitheses). Saul, seeking his father's asses, found himself turned
into a king. Fit the same intellect to a man and it is a bowstring;
to a woman and it is a harp-string. I thought that this man had been a
lord among wits, but I find that he is only a wit among lords.
Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven. For fools rush in
where angels fear to tread.
7. Metonymy. Besides the figures of likeness and unlikeness,
there are others of quite a different kind. _Metonymy_ consists in the
substitution for the thing itself of something closely associated with
it, as the sign or symbol for the thing symbolized, the cause for the
effect, the instrument for the user of it, the container for the thing
contained, the material for the thing made of it, etc.
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