Read the excerpt from "Among Free Men." No wrongs have ever been righted by riots or civil disorders. A sniper is only a coward, not a hero; and an uncontrolled, uncontrollable mob is only the voice of madness, not the voice of reason.

The excerpt places contrasting ideas side by side: “coward” versus “hero” and “madness” versus “reason.” This deliberate contrast is antithesis. It is not irony, because the statements mean what they say, nor metonymy or allusion.

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