antimetabolen.
Rhetoric.
A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order.
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antimetabole1589
epanodos1589
eversion1678
antistrophe1728
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1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 174 Antimetauole or the Counterchange..as thus..If Poesie be, as some haue said, A speaking picture to the eye: Then is a picture not denaid, To be a muet Poesie.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique 117 Antimetabole is a sentence inverst, or turn'd back, or it is a form of speech which inverts a sentence by the contrary.
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