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Two ideas shoved face-to-face so the contrast does the arguing for you.

means A sharp opposition of contrasting ideas, often balanced in parallel grammar for rhetorical punch.

from From Greek antitithenai, to set against, literally a placing-oppositerhetoric's favorite face-off staged with words.

Hegel's gearThe middle step in thesis-antithesis-synthesis.
Built to balanceThrives on parallel structure: not this, but that.
Famous userDickens opened a novel with two-fisted antithesis.
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