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Meaning of "antimetabole" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ANTIMETABOLE

antimetabole  [ˌæntɪməˈtæbəlɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ANTIMETABOLE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Antimetabole is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ANTIMETABOLE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Antimetabole

In rhetoric, antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order. It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases.

Definition of antimetabole in the English dictionary

The definition of antimetabole in the dictionary is the repetition of words in reverse order for emphasis.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ANTIMETABOLE


babbly
ˈbæbəlɪ
bobbly
ˈbɒbəlɪ
brambly
ˈbræmbəlɪ
cembali
ˈtʃembəlɪ
hubbly
ˈhʌbəlɪ
hyperbole
haɪˈpɜːbəlɪ
Kimberley
ˈkɪmbəlɪ
landlubberly
ˈlændlʌbəlɪ
lubberly
ˈlʌbəlɪ
metaboly
mɪˈtæbəlɪ
neighborly
ˈneɪbəlɪ
neighbourly
ˈneɪbəlɪ
nonverbally
ˌnɒnˈvɜːbəlɪ
nubbly
ˈnʌbəlɪ
parabole
pəˈræbəlɪ
soberly
ˈsəʊbəlɪ
sombrely
ˈsɒmbəlɪ
Stromboli
ˈstrɒmbəlɪ
tribally
ˈtraɪbəlɪ
verbally
ˈvɜːbəlɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ANTIMETABOLE

antimask
antimasque
antimaterialism
antimaterialist
antimatter
antimechanist
antimere
antimerger
antimeric
antimerism
antimetabolic
antimetabolite
antimetathesis
antimicrobial
antimicrobial resistance
antimilitarism
antimilitarist
antimilitary
antimine
antimissile

WORDS THAT END LIKE ANTIMETABOLE

amphibole
as a whole
bole
carambole
cole
console
controle
ecbole
hole
hypobole
in the hole
obole
on the whole
parole
pole
rocambole
role
sobole
sole
whole

Synonyms and antonyms of antimetabole in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «antimetabole» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ANTIMETABOLE

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The translations of antimetabole from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «antimetabole» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

antimetabole
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

antimetabole
570 millions of speakers

English

antimetabole
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

antimetabole
380 millions of speakers
ar

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antimetabole
280 millions of speakers

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antimetabole
278 millions of speakers

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antimetabole
270 millions of speakers

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antimetabole
260 millions of speakers

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antimetabole
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Antimetabolik
190 millions of speakers

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antimetabole
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

antimetabole
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

antimetabole
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Antimetabole
85 millions of speakers
vi

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antimetabole
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

antimetabole
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिमेटबोल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

antimetabole
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

antimetabole
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

antimetabole
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

antimetabole
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

antimetabole
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

antimetabole
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

antimetabole
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

antimetabole
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

antimetabole
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of antimetabole

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIMETABOLE»

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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ANTIMETABOLE» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about antimetabole

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ANTIMETABOLE»

Discover the use of antimetabole in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to antimetabole and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Antimetabole Exx: 'Love's fire heats water, water cools not love' (Shakespeare, sonnet 154); 'Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country' (J.F. Kennedy, inaugural address); 'Women are changing the ...
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
2
Chi-thinking: Chiasmus and Cognition
10 Fahnestock considers that even though a chiastic construction has the same AB:BA inverting pattern of antimetabole, the crucial terms of the first half of the chiastic sentence are, in the second half, only related and not exact duplicates ( 227) ...
Patricia Ann Lissner, 2007
3
Keys to Great Writing
Later in the same speech he uses a rhetorical scheme called "antimetabole" when, in juxtaposing and balancing contrasting ideas, he repeats certain words in reverse grammatical order: "Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear ...
Stephen Wilbers, 2007
4
The Development of Shakespeare's Rhetoric: A Study of Nine Plays
ideas in inverted order) play a major role here, their rates significantly exceeding those found in other plays: Table 6.2 Frequency of antimetabole and chiasmus in nine plays (instances per thousand lines). In Titus, only Shakespeare's part of ...
Stefan Daniel Keller, 2009
5
Visions and Revisions: Continuity and Change in Rhetoric and ...
4); the second a characteristic our minds adore — and it very frequently commingles with antithesis, for which our heads also have a great affinity (in fact, antimetabole seems to be a syntactic antithesis; antithesis a semantic antimetabole).
James Dale Williams, 2002
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Encyclopedia of Rhetoric and Composition: Communication from ...
Rereading the Sophists: Classi-cal Rhetoric Refigured. Carbondale: Southern Illinois UP, 1991. Antimetabole Inverting the order of repeated words. Kennedy used antimetabole in his famous phrase "Ask not what your country can do for you, ...
Theresa Enos, 2013
7
Performing Prose: The Study and Practice of Style in Composition
Another scheme of repetition, antimetabole, occurs when words are repeated but in reverse order: “One should eat to live, not live to eat.” This scheme often goes by the name “chiasmus,” after the crossing pattern involved (chi is Greek for the ...
Chris Holcomb, M. Jimmie Killingsworth, 2010
8
Seeing Double: Baudelaire's Modernity
Such analogiesproliferate. The other way inwhich Baudelaire manipulatesdualities resembles antimetabole, the repetition of words in inverse order(Ihate to love andIloveto hate). But Baudelaire performs a conceptual antimetabole,a type of ...
Françoise Meltzer, 2011
9
Chiasmus and Culture
The standard textbook example, 'Non ut edam vivo sed ut vivam edo' (I do not live to eat but eat to live), provided by Quintilian (ad 35–100), was by him called antimetabole; the word 'chiasmus' was not coined until the second century, ...
Boris Wiseman, Anthony Paul, 2014
10
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics
The earliest attestations of antimetabole can be found in Cousin, who cites definitions by Quintilian (9.3.85) and Alexander Numenius (3.37.23) and synonymous terms in Phoebammon (3.55.2). Quintilian gives two examples of antimetabole: ...
Roland Greene, Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ANTIMETABOLE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term antimetabole is used in the context of the following news items.
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Courtney Barnett does lyrical gymnastics while keeping both feet on …
Even as she stares into the void, Courtney Barnett can't resist a little antimetabole. She puts a voice to the part of your brain that comes out ... «The Verge, Mar 15»
2
When a Chicago Public Schools teacher swears in class
... of parallelism we were studying: anaphora, antimetabole, and antithesis. A couple of students drew their visual representations on the board. «ChicagoNow, Apr 14»
3
Use antimetabole and chiasmus to make your sentences memorable
If you want to get fancy, you can use the Greek words Plato and Aristotle used for two schemes of repetition: antimetabole and chiasmus. «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mar 14»
4
Derp Roundup: Your Weekly Scrapbook Of Scum And Villainy
You know, when you can't even make the two halves of your attempt at antimetabole match up, you should maybe not try to do the rhetoric at all ... «Wonkette, Jan 14»
5
The genius of Jodie Foster's Golden Globes speech
In terms of formal rhetoric, it's a near-antimetabole or chiasmus (7) - bookended by the verb "move" in first active then passive voice. It is also a ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jan 13»
6
US flourishes best, but best flourish
It's what's called an “antimetabole" – a symmetrical phrase that has been a rhetorical device since humans first began to write. The second ... «The Australian Financial Review, Dec 12»
7
#InPraiseOfTheHashtag
In the literary glossary that ranges from antimetabole to zeugma, there's no term that exactly captures all that the hashtag is capable of. «New York Times, Nov 12»
8
Redfern speech flatters writer as well as orator
(antimetabole); "I have a dream that . . . I have a dream that . . . I have a dream today!" (anaphora, metaphor and, in all three examples, ethos). «The Australian, Aug 10»
9
Want to know how to handle all of these?
ARA, antimetabole would fit a sentence like "I know what I like and I like what I know". In antimetabole you transpose the order of the sentence. «BBC News, Jul 09»
10
The best antimetabole submissions from Slate's reader contest.
Dear readers, ask not what Slate can do for you but what you can do for Slate. Last week, we sent out a call for your best antimetabole —the ... «Slate, Sep 08»

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« EDUCALINGO. Antimetabole [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/antimetabole>. Apr 2024 ».
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