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A figure of speech placing two ideas that are very different in meaning, together. This is used in rhetoric to balance out contrasting ideas in parallel arrangements of words. A. Puns B. Irony C. Alliteration D. Antithesis

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Antithesis is correct

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User Jaume Figueras
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The correct answer is D. Antithesis.

All of the other options represent other figures of speech which are not even similar to what you described in your question.
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