antimetabole

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  1. In rhetoric, a figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in inverse order. The following are examples: “A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits,” Pope; “Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise,” Quarles.

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  • How many even know the meaning of anaphora, antimetabole or litotes? —  The Chicago Blog
 

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀντιμεταβολή, from ἀντί, against, counter, + μεταβολή, mutation: see metabola.
 

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/æntɪmɛˈtæbəli/
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