[Lexicog] Re: When Semantics Doesn't Matter

[bolstar1]

John....oops....forgot to give you a few definitions & examples: 
antistrophe:

Merriam Online:
1 a : the repetition of words in reversed order b : the repetition of 
a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses   

Wictionar & Webster Dictionary (1913): 
(Rhet) The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of 
the servant and the servant of the master.  

Bob's Byway of Poetic Terms: 
ANTISTROPHE (an-TIS-troh-fee) 
The second division in the triadic structure of Pindaric verse, 
corresponding metrically to the strophe; also, the stanza following 
or alternating with and responding to the strophe in ancient lyric 
poetry; also, in rhetoric, the reversal of terms mutually dependent 
on each other, as from "the captain of the crew" to "the crew of the 
captain." 



chiasmus:  

Encarta: 
inverted word order in phrase: a rhetorical construction in which the 
order of the words in the second of two paired phrases is the reverse 
of the order in the first. An example is "gray was the morn, all 
things were gray."   

Compact Oxford English Dictionary: 
the inversion in a second phrase or clause of the order of words in 
the first.  

American Heritage:
A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as 
in "Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye" (Samuel Taylor 
Coleridge).  

Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition:  
(Rhet.) An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated 
or subsequently referred to in a sentence; thus,   If e'er to bless 
thy sons My voice or hands deny, These hands let useful skill 
forsake, This voice in silence die. Dwight.   

Hope this helped (It did me.)

Scott N.




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