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1.the act of positioning close together (or side by side); "it is the result of the juxtaposition of contrasting colors"
2.a side-by-side position |
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| 1.arrangement of scenery and properties to represent the place where a play or movie is enacted |
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| 1.expressing disapproval; "dyslogistic terms like `nitwit' and `scalawag'" |
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1.an obvious and intentional exaggeration.
2.an extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “She’s as big as a house.”
3.A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect, as in I could sleep for a year or This book weighs a ton. |
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1.formulation of the plans and important details; "the framing of judicial decrees"
2.a framework that supports and protects a picture or a mirror; "the frame enhances but is not itself the subject of attention"; "the frame was much more valuable than the miror it held" |
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1.One who opposes and contends against another; an adversary.
2.The principal character in opposition to the protagonist or hero of a narrative or drama. |
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| 1.The main character in a drama or other literary work |
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| 1.A figure of speech in which two essentially unlike things are compared, often in a phrase introduced by like or as, as in "How like the winter hath my absence been" or "So are you to my thoughts as food to life" |
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| 1.A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another |
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| 1.extreme or eccentric national loyalty that is hostile to the interests of any other nation |
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| Pseudo-antidisestablishmentarianism |
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| 1. false opposition to the withdrawal of state support from a church. |
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