Antimetabole

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 * D** **efinition::** Antimetabole, is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order. It can also be defined as a figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order.


 * Origin::** Derives from the Greek "against", "opposite", and "turning about, change".


 * See also::** [|Chiasmus] (however, chiasmus does not use repetition of the same exact words or phrases).

Definition taken from (wikipedia.org).


 * Examples** from text:

1) "If you'll never learn where you are, you can at least learn where I am." ("Everything that Rises Must Converge" by Flannery O'Connor).


 * This sentence shows the first phrase stated in one but then a similar phrase with the same ideas and connotations repeated in inverse, or opposite, order.

2) "There will be a time, there will be a time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet." ("The Love Song of J. Alfred Profrock" by T.S. Eliot).
 * Here, the idea of preparing "a face to meet the faces that you meet" is first stated as " to prepare a face to meet" and the inverse order of that phrase is "the faces that you meet." The words are close to being in exact reverse order and the meaning behind the second part is clearly opposite in meaning of the first part.

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