- 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...
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phrase of
witticism in
American English. The
phrase is an
example of an
antimetabole. The
origin of the
phrase has been
attributed to
various sources. It...
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peace 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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speakers of the
language in
which they're
given (most
commonly English).
Antimetabole Anti-proverb
Chiasmus Russian reversal Spoonerism Pollack, John (2012)...
- sin, and some by
virtue fall. — Shakespeare,
Measure for
Measure 2.1
Antimetabole involves repeating but
reversing the
order of words,
phrases or clauses...
- the verb, and the
object is changed.
Anastrophe is a
hyponym of the
antimetabole,
where anastrophe only
transposes one word in a sentence. For example...
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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...
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appeared imminent. Example: "People, pets, batteries, ... all are dead."
Antimetabole: a
sentence consisting of the
repetition of
words in
successive clauses...
- real friends, real pain for my sham friends" is a pun in the form of an
antimetabole. It is
recorded as a
toast dating to at
least the
nineteenth century...
