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The word "whereas" functions as a conjunction that introduces a clause in opposition to or in contrast with what has just been stated. In literature, it is often deployed to juxtapose ideas, actions, or characteristics, accentuating the difference between two entities or conditions. For instance, one passage contrasts the noble qualities of friendship with the baseness of pleasure ([1]), while another contrasts personal actions and consequences, asking what one should say when someone is accountable for their own deeds ([2]). Authors also utilize it to set apart different narrative strands or to underscore shifts in tone, as when a character highlights a discrepancy between straightforward truth and a more complicated reality ([3], [4]). This versatile conjunction thus enriches the literary texture, allowing for emphatic comparisons and nuanced assertions throughout varied textual contexts.
  1. For friendship is noble and refined, whereas pleasure is vulgar and illiberal.
    — from Plutarch's Morals by Plutarch
  2. What shall I say, or what shall he answer for me, whereas he himself hath done it?
    — from The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Complete
  3. M. Riviere paused, and then added: "Whereas it's far from being as simple as that.
    — from The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
  4. But time and space, each for itself, can be mentally presented apart from matter, whereas matter cannot be so presented apart from time and space.
    — from The World as Will and Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer

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