Try:
http://www.thesaurus.com/thesaurus/roget/I/14.html
and refer to the adjs section.
>From top of me head:
antithesis (and its derivatives)
diametrically opposed (?)
antipodean
as stark contrast/in contrast to/contrariness/contrariety
(or a really off-the-charts one) chiaroscuro
and in particular to your smidgeon:
a catachretical construct (vis the dog paddles and dog-fish)
wait...
see
http://www.virtualsalt.com/litterms.htm
for definition of catachresis
Hope they are useful.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(snip)
> What I'm looking for is the word or word phrase that could
> mean the same as "a method or way of separating a group into two polar
> opposite sections."
