Aline of reasoning that presents the opposite side of the author’s argument is called a .

I believe that the best answer for this question is a counterargument. Whatever the writer is in support of is the argument. The opposite side would be whatever the opposing, or countering, argument is. For example, if someone is in support of free college, they would support their argument and perhaps include some information about the counterargument, which would be not supporting free college. Hope this helps.

The main themes of the play are: fate and free will with the inevitability of oracular predictions is a theme that often occurs in greek tragedies the conflict between the individual and the state similar to that in sophocles’ “antigone” and   people’s willingness to ignore painful truths both oedipus and jocasta clutch at unlikely details in order to avoiding facing up to the inceasingly apparent truth and sight and blindness the irony that the blind seer tiresius can actually “see” more clearly than the supposedly clear-eyed oedipus, who is in reality blind to the truth about his origins and his inadvertent crimes.