antistrophe

  1. Noun.  In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.
  2. Noun.  (rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
  3. Noun.  (rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses.
  4. Noun.  The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him. .

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