Kristan

Is this antithesis? "...like rain, except its not raining..." "Like a radio or something, but its not a radio..." "...all very civilized, except this isn't civilization." examples taken from The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien

10-5=5 Mary age=5 10×5=50 50-20=30 Mary age in five years time=30 Mary's current age=27