WHAT IS ANTITHESIS?

“THE BIGGER THEY ARE, THE HARDER THEY FALL.”

Antithesis

Juxtaposition of contrasting ideas in one

sentence or phrase.

Pronunciation: an-TITH-uh-sis

Antithesis

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness...”Charles Dickens – The Tale of Two Cities

Antithesis

"We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."(Martin Luther King, Jr., speech at St. Louis, 1964)

Make Your Own Antithesis

1. It was the best day...

2. He was a foolish boy...

LET’S GET BACK TO SOME MUSIC

The Proclaimers

“But I would walk 500

miles

And I would walk 500

more

Just to be the man who

walked 1,000 miles

To fall down at your door”(The Proclaimers – I’m Gonna Be

(500 Miles))

Hyperbole

Exaggeration used for emphasis

Pronunciation: hi-PURR-buh-lee

Hyperbole

"Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."(Kent Brockman, The Simpsons)

Make Your Own Hyperbole

1. I am so tired...

2. I was so hungry...

3. The class went for...

PETER PIPER PICKED A PECK OF PICKLED PEPPERS...

What is this?

Alliteration

Consonant sounds at the beginning of

words are repeated.

Pronunciation: ah-lit-err-RAY-shun

"You'll never put a better bit of butter on

your knife.“ (advertising slogan for Country Life butter)

Alliteration

Make Your Own

Write a sentence with alliteration.

Not every word have to start with the

same consonant sound, just lots of them.

Pun

"When it pours, it reigns."(slogan of Michelin tires)

“When it rains, it pours’”

Pun

A play on words

Different senses of the same word, or

Different senses of similar sounding words

Pun

Pun

A three-legged dog walks into a saloon in the Old West. He sidles up to the bar and announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my paw.“

Shot my paw Shot my pa

What is the pun here?

What is the pun and reference?

What is the pun?

What is the pun and reference?

Pun

Two Eskimos sitting in a kayak were cold

so they lit a fire in the craft. It sank,

proving that you can't have your kayak

and heat it, too.

“You can’t have your cake and eat it,

too.”

Pun

WARNING: Using puns rarely.

ANTIMETABOLE

Pronunciation: an-tee-meh-TA-bo-lee

Antimetabole

"We didn't land on Plymouth Rock; Plymouth Rock landed on us.“ (Malcolm X)

Antimetabole

The second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the words in reverse grammatical order (A-B-C, C-B-A).

Antimetabole

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."(A. J. Liebling)

Antimetabole

"You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance."(Rad Bradbury)

Write one of your own, own one that you write.

Create just one of your own examples of antimetabole