Dichotomy
Dichotomy is the contrast between two things that are represented as being opposed or opposite, e.g, good and evil, black and white, thought and action, etc. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” Macbeth,1.3.39
Quotes including the Figure of Speech Dichotomy
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
Read the QuoteSo foul and fair a day I have not seen.Dichotomy
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All good people, You that thus far have come to pity me
Read the QuoteBuckingham
All good people,
You that thus far have come to pity me,
Hear what I say, and then go home and lose me.
Go with me like good angels to my end,
And as the long divorce of steel falls on me,
Make of your prayers one sweet sacrifice
I have this day received a traitor’s judgment,
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Naught’s had, all’s spent
Read the QuoteNaught’s had, all’s spent,
Where our desire is got without content.Isocolon & Dichotomy
Things without all remedy
Should be without regard. What’s done is done.
‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.Antimetabole, Polyptoton & Alliteration
Enter Macbeth.
How now,
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