A rhetorical strategy that sets two ideas in mutually exclusive opposition.
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antithesis
A rhetorical strategy that sets two ideas in mutually exclusive opposition.
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Brutus uses antithesis to separate honorable Brutus from ambitious Caesar; Antony uses chiasmus to collapse that separation and make Brutus look more ambitious.
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"...strategy of Brutus is to use a rhetorical strategy called the antithesis. Okay? The antithesis is basically very simple. You have two opposing ideas...."
"If Caesar is dead, we will continue to live as free men. Okay? Two exclusionary ideas developed by Brutus. Now, what Mark Anthony says,..."
"...world that governs all human affairs. And this dynamic is thesis, antithesis, synthesis. So God is the will to bestow, creates Adam Kanmon, who..."
"...the main logic of the universe is the movement of thesis, antithesis, and synthesis."
"...accelerate the process. All right. So if the movement is thesis, antithesis, synthesis, one way to understand this is for us to be good,..."
"...think? And the answer is the dialectic. The dialectic is thesis, antithesis, and synthesis. And the concept is just a debate among, in itself...."
"...hegelian dialectic right so feudalism is the thesis industrial capitalism is antithesis and then together they will create communism why okay so for marx..."
"This is part of the thesis antithesis synthesis part of history. The so the bourgeoisie are engaged in imperialism it's destroying all that we've..."
"...and it alienates. All right? So for Marx and Engels the antithesis will be solidarity. And this will lead to a classless workers' paradise...."
"...do that, when you have a chiasmus, you, you collapse the antithesis. Remember, the antithesis are two separate ideas that cannot meet together, exclusionary...."
"...Caesar were dead to live all free men. This is an antithesis. Right? I love Caesar, but I love Rome more. Okay? This is..."
"...problems. It's too extreme. It's too problematic. So we create an antithesis. Okay? But this antithesis itself is also too extreme. And this creates..."
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English becomes empire because Shakespeare turns language into infrastructure.
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