ANTITHESIS AND ITS INSTANCES IN LITERARY TEXTS

This article is devoted to the analysis of the antithesis, its usage in the texts, distinct meaning as well as structural and semantic analysis based on the study of instances and excerpts of literature. The principal role of the antithesis, as a stylistic figure, is to implement concepts in a contrast. The article viewed concepts of scientists on the lexical-semantic concepts of the antithesis and presented examples from literary works and illustrated them in the article.