Parison vs Antithesis - What's the difference?
parison | antithesis |
(glassblowing) A spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day (Vintage 2007), page 278:
A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
(rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.
As nouns the difference between parison and antithesis
is that parison is (glassblowing) a spherical mass of glass, rolled immediately after being taken out of the furnace while antithesis is a proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.parison
English
Noun
(en noun)- The wineglasses were from a matched dozen, each having begun as a glowing parison at the end of some blowpipe over in Murano but days before.