From the lecture notes, Juxtaposition is synonymous with contrast, 2 objects or texts that oppose one another. Contrast is often overtly marked by markers, such as:
- It's raining, but I am not taking an umbrella .
The guy knows well about it's going to be raining, but didn't go prepare for it. Here shows the relationship of comparing something similar, yet different, that is believed to be typical of contrastive relations.
There's still another type of Juxtaposition, which is random Juxtaposition that refers to the stimulation of creativity in problem solving, design or other creative pursuit by confronting two unrelated concepts or objects, usually the goal or problem to be solved on the one hand and a randomly selected object or concept on the other. Similar to an oxymoron. For example, the juxtaposition of ‘cigarette po soap’ gave rise to the idea of putting flower seeds in the butts of cigarette so that man would beautify the surroundings with his waste instead of messing them up.
*reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_juxtaposition
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contrast_(linguistics)
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