- In rhetoric,
antimetabole (/æntɪməˈtæbəliː/ AN-ti-mə-TAB-ə-lee) is the
repetition of
words in
successive clauses, but in
transposed order; for example...
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phrases or
clauses – but no
repetition of words". A
similar device,
antimetabole, also
involves a
reversal of
grammatical structures in
successive phrases...
- but a sword. (St Matthew's Gospel, 10:34).
Another type
involves an
antimetabole (AB, BA word order), in
which the
contrasted words switch places: In...
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phrase by
repeating it in both places.
Nested double-epanalepses are
antimetaboles. The king is dead; long live the king!
History is ours and
people make...
- a po****r
witticism in
American English. The
phrase is an
example of
antimetabole. The
origin of the
phrase has been
attributed to
various sources. It...
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Little Virtues, 1962 by
Natalia Ginzburg, with
repetition of
disaster Antimetabole is the
repetition of
words in
successive clauses, but in
transposed order...
- Go, go, you
question with a
wicked tongue. — Shakespeare
Hamlet 3.1
Antimetabole involves repeating but
reversing the
order of words,
phrases or clauses...
-
country has its own mafia; In Russia, the
mafia has its own country."
Antimetabole Russian political jokes Two cows in
Russia Scranton, Roy (July 16, 2018)...
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speakers of the
language in
which they're
given (most
commonly English).
Antimetabole Anti-proverb
Chiasmus Russian reversal Spoonerism Pollack, John (2012)...
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consumption of depressants, and materialism. The last line is an
example of
antimetabole, the
figure of
speech in
which two or more
clauses are
related to each...
