Footnotes to Section III, 5:  Constructive Elements of Style

[Footnote 1:  The following examples are taken from the Laieikawai, where antithesis is frequent: 

“Four children were mine, four are dead.”

“Masters inside and outside” (to express masters over everything).

“I have seen great and small, men and women; low chiefs, men and women;
  high chiefs.”

“When you wish to go, go; if you wish to stay, this is Hana, stay here.”

“As you would do to me, so shall I to you.”

“I will not touch, you, you must not touch me.”

“Until day becomes night and night day.”

“If it seems good I will consent; if not, I will refuse.”

“Camped at some distance from A’s party and A’s party from them.”

“Sounds only by night, ... never by day.”

“Through us the consent, through us the refusal.”

“You above, our wife below.”

“Thunder pealed, this was Waka’s work; thunder pealed, this was Malio’s
  work.”

“Do not look back, face ahead.”

“Adversity to one is adversity to all;” “we will not forsake you, do not
  you forsake us.”

“Not to windward, go to leeward.”

“Never ... any destruction before like this; never will any come
  hereafter.”

“Everyone has a god, none is without.”

“There I stood, you were gone.”

“I have nothing to complain of you, you have nothing to complain of me.”

The balanced sentence structure is often handled with particular skill: 

“If ... a daughter, let her die; however many daughters ... let them die.”

“The penalty is death, death to himself, death to his wife, death to all
  his friends.”

“Drive him away; if he should tell you his desire, force him away; if he is
  very persistent, force him still more.”

“Again they went up ... again the chief waited ... the chief again sent a
  band.”

“A crest arose; he finished his prayer to the amen; again a crest arose,
  the second this; not long after another wave swelled.”

“If she has given H. a kiss, if she has defiled herself with him, then we
  lose the wife, then take me to my grave without pity.  But if she has
  hearkened ... then she is a wife for you, if my grandchild has hearkened
  to my command.”

A series of synonyms is not uncommon, or the repetition of an idea in other words: 

“Do not fear, have no dread.”

“Linger not, delay not your going.”

“Exert your strength, all your godlike might.”

“Lawless one, mischief maker, rogue of the sea.”

“Princess of broad Hawaii, Laieikawai, our mistress.”

“House of detention, prison-house.”

“Daughter, lord, preserver.”]

[Footnote 2:  In the course of the story of Laieikawai occur more than 50 ejaculatory phrases, more than half of these in the narrative, not the dialogue, portion: