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Other examples include Samuel Johnson's The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia (1759) and Samuel Butler's Erewhon (1872), which uses an anagram of "nowhere" as its title. [2] [5] This, like much of utopian literature, can be seen as satire; Butler inverts illness and crime, with punishment for the former and treatment for the latter. [5]
Opposition to immigration, also known as anti-immigration, is a political position that seeks to restrict immigration.In the modern sense, immigration refers to the entry of people from one state or territory into another state or territory in which they are not citizens.
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Definitions of deportation vary, with some implicating "transfer beyond State borders" (distinguishing it from forcible transfer), [2] others considering it "the actual implementation of [an expulsion] order in cases where the person concerned does not follow it voluntarily", [3] and others differentiating removal of legal immigrants (expulsion) and illegal immigrants (deportation).
"Dems won’t deport, because every illegal is a highly likely vote at some point," Musk wrote on X, formerly Twitter, Feb. 26. "That simple incentive explains what seems to be insane behavior ...
Oxymorons in the narrow sense are a rhetorical device used deliberately by the speaker and intended to be understood as such by the listener. In a more extended sense, the term "oxymoron" has also been applied to inadvertent or incidental contradictions, as in the case of "dead metaphors" ("barely clothed" or "terribly good").
Antiphrasis is the rhetorical device of saying the opposite of what is actually meant in such a way that it is obvious what the true intention is. [1] Some authors treat and use antiphrasis just as irony, euphemism or litotes. [2] When the antiphrasal use is very common, the word can become an auto-antonym, [3] having opposite meanings ...
Don Quixote and his sidekick Sancho Panza, as illustrated by Gustave Doré: the characters' contrasting qualities [1] are reflected here even in their physical appearances. In any narrative, a foil is a character who contrasts with another character, typically, a character who contrasts with the protagonist, in order to better highlight or differentiate certain qualities of the protagonist.