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Antimetabole

Antimetabole: reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast:

  • All work and no play is as harmful to mental health as all play and no work.
  • Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for you.
Subject: 
English
Subject X2: 
English

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