Overview
Negative parallelism is a stylistic device that defines a subject by describing what it is not as well as what it is: "it's not X, it's Y". It has also been called "antithesis", "metalinguistic negation" or "contrastive phrasing".
Negative parallelism is a stylistic device that defines a subject by describing what it is not as well as what it is: "it's not X, it's Y". It has also been called "antithesis", "metalinguistic negation" or "contrastive phrasing".