Learn English – it called when comparing two opposite people or things

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Can someone please let me know what is the technique called when I compare two people who are very different? In my case, it is Donald Woods when he first meets Steve Biko in the film Cry Freedom. I have something along the lines of

face to face, the privileged and the disadvantaged _____

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I would say that the word you are looking for is "oppose" or perhaps, as Hot Licks suggest "contrast"