Stylistic opposition, which is given a special name, the term antithesis,is of a different linguistic nature: it is based on relative opposition which arises out of the context through the expansion of objectively contrasting pairs as in:
"Youth is lovely, age is lonely,
Youth is fiery, age is frosty." (Longfellow).
Antithesis is a device bordering between stylistics and logic. The extremes are easily discernible but most of the cases are intermediate. However, it is essential to distinguish between antithesis and what is termed contrast. Contrast is a literary (not a linguistic) device based on logical opposition between the phenomena set one against another.
Antithesis has the following basic functions: rhythm-forming (because of the parallel arrangement on which it is founded); copulative; dissevering; comparative. These functions often go together and intermingle in their own peculiar manner. But as a rule antithesis displays one of the functions more clearly than the others. This particular function will then be the leading one in the given utterance.
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