antithesis
C1CEFR level
45/100Rarity: uncommon
TechnicalRegister
A rhetorical figure that sets sharply contrasting ideas against each other in balanced grammatical form.
'Ask not what your country can do for you' turns on a classic antithesis of giving and receiving.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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