单词 | antimetabole |
释义 | ‖ antimetabole Rhet.|ˌæntɪmɪˈtæbəliː| [L. a. Gr. ἀντιµεταβολή, f. ἀντί in the opposite direction + µεταβολή turning about.] A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie 217 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. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 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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