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	Chiasmus Encyclopedia Article @ JunkWords.com (Junk Words) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Latin, in particular, it was used to articulate balance or order within the text in which it was included.
		Today, chiasmus is applied fairly broadly to any "criss-cross" structure, although in classical rhetoric, it was distinguished from other similar devices, such as the antimetabole.
		These examples are often quoted by modern commentators to demonstrate chiasmus, although they are defined as antimetabole in the classical sense.
	www.junkwords.com /encyclopedia/Chiasmus (1081 words)

	The Finger of God - Figure Antithesis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It is a figure by which two thoughts, ideas, or phrases, are set over one against the other, in order to make the contrast more striking, and thus to emphasize it.
		When it consists of words rather than sentences it is called Epanodos and Antimetabole.
		When this is the case it is called Antimetabole, Parison, Annominatio, etc. (q.v.
	www.biblebob.net /Figures/Antithesis.htm (788 words)

	Antimetabolic King John Style - Find Articles
		Given these and other precedents (such as that of George Wright), I a rgue in what follows that a chiastic trope, antimetabole, represents a microcosm of the experience of watching and interpreting Shakespeare's King John.
		More specifically, the many antimetabolic tropes of King John condense and translate for auditors and readers the various mirrorings and impasses of this chronicle history that help create its characteristic indeterminate meaning.
		Each division occurs or is announced or culminates in [scenes ii and iii of act IV], which might also be imagined as the 'crossing' of the chiastic structures I have already mentioned" (76).
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2342/is_3_34/ai_70396394/pg_20 (752 words)

	What is Chiasmus (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.unc.edu) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		When they do, it is more accurate to describe them as examples of chiasmus, as opposed to the more general term, antithesis.
		Antimetabole and its adjective, antimetabolic, are words that don't exactly roll off the tongue.
		And they really don't have to, since the slightly broader umbrella of chiasmus is able to include all examples of antimetabole under it.
	www.chiasmus.com.cob-web.org:8888 /whatischiasmus.shtml (3198 words)

	Rhetorical Key Terms
		Antimetabole is the repetition of the same words or phrases in reverse order, often emphasizing the opposition or contrast between the ideas expressed by the words or phrases.
		Chiasmus is a type of balance in which the second part is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
		Unlike antimetabole, chiasmus does not use the same words in its reversal.
	commhum.mccneb.edu /sgold/Rhetorical.htm (817 words)

	Figures of Rhetoric in Advertising Language
		Unfortunately, the many techniques catalogued by rhetoricians since antiquity (e.g., rhyme, antimetabole, pun, hyperbole) have remained largely unacknowledged, undifferentiated, and uninfluential in advertising theory.
		This is because excess regularity is obtained via rearrangements of the surface of the text, i.e., it occurs at a sensory level, as when one repeats sounds to achieve a rhyme or inverts the order of words to create an antimetabole.
		By contrast, a rhetorical question or pun is not a sensorially apparent feature of the headline, but becomes manifest as the text is related to semantic and background knowledge (see Childers and Houston 1984 for an experimental instantiation of a depth of processing manipulation based on this sensory vs. semantic distinction).
	lsb.scu.edu /~emcquarrie/rhetjcr.htm (7772 words)

	The Finger of God - Figure Epanodos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		After two, three, or more words have been mentioned, they are repeated, not in the same order again, but backward.
		When prepositions are inverted and thus contrasted, and not merely the words, the figure is called Antimetabole.
		When only the subject matter is thus related it is called Chiasmu, though this may also be called Epanados.
	www.biblebob.net /Figures/Epanodos.htm (154 words)

	Style Journal
		A chiastic trope, antimetabole, represents a microcosm of the experience of watching and interpreting Shakespeare’s King John.
		More specifically, the many antimetabolic tropes of King John condense and translate for auditors and readers the various mirrorings and impasses of this chronicle history play that help create its characteristic indeterminate meaning.
		In this respect, antimetabole can be added to the list of classic rhetorical tropes, such as metonymy and synecdoche, that Lawrence Danson and others have shown typify Shakespeare plays such as Coriolanus and Cymbeline.
	www.engl.niu.edu /style/archives/vol34n3.html (1503 words)

	Digest for Tuesday, November 28, 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		You don't need to be familiar with the term, antimetabole (I had to look it up), to know the figure of speech involved.
		Gideon O. Burton of Brigham Young University puts it, antimetabole is a: "Repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order." Examples : When the going gets tough, the tough get going.
		Anybody who's seen the flick "Mystery Men" can get the hang of it, but look what W. said Sunday night when he announced that the vote counting is now over and he is in: "This has been a hard-fought election, a healthy contest for American democracy.
	humor.catweasel.org /Site1/Digests/H0011280.php (3501 words)

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		A great many fu, indeed, provide the literary equivalent of dynasty-building, and their chiastic figures often concern, quite concretely, the construction of imperial palaces, e.g., WX1.7 (Kn1.117): *Their forms figured heaven and earth, Took warp and weft from yin and yang.
		This antimetabole makes the palaces of Chang’an a sort of universal mandala incorporating the counterchanged shapes and arrangements of the macrocosmos they symbolize.
		Her main chiasmus in lines one through 4 inverts longing/yearning and the distant road; her main antimetabole in five through eight frames with vision and pivots with “another land.” Prosody adds a layer of criss-cross patterning; lines 1-2 feature opening reduplicative binomes, and line eight begins with yet another evocative binome.
	www.hawaii.edu /eall/ppl/indiv/Chn/McCraw/dblx/xch8.doc (6744 words)

	What is Chiasmus
		In antimetabole, "the same words or ideas" must be repeated in reverse order.
		In fact, one could say that all examples of antimetabole are chiastic, but not all examples of chiasmus are antimetabolic.
		Quite appropriately, Merriam Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature describes antimetabole as "A type of chiasmus."
	www.chiasmus.com /whatischiasmus.shtml (3198 words)

	From ancient Greece to 21st Century global politics, the techniques of rhetoric are constant. Michael Ekin Smyth of ...
		Chiasmus is the inversion of the natural order of successive words, in an A-B, B-A structure.
		The antimetabole technique inverts the structure of identical words.
		Chiasmus inverts the structure of similar words and is a more subtle rhetorical device.
	www.wordsmyth.btinternet.co.uk /Rhetorical_Techniques.htm (2392 words)

	Rhetorical Schemes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It can be a contrast of opposites: "Evil men fear authority; good men cherish it." Or it can be a contrast of degree: "One small step for a man, one giant leap for all mankind."
		Antimetabole -- (also called Epanados) repetition in reverse order: "One should eat to live, not live to eat." Or, "You like it; it likes you." The witches in that Scottish play chant, "Fair is foul and foul is fair." Antimetabole often overlaps with chiasmus, below.
		Alliosis -- presenting alternatives: "You can eat well or you can sleep well." While such a structure often results in the logical fallacy of the false dichotomy or the either/or fallacy, it can create a cleverly balanced and artistic sentence.
	web.cn.edu /kwheeler/schemes.html (1908 words)

	Rob Cottingham » Rewrite the quotation books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rhetorical scholars will recognize the age-old figure of speech known as antimetabole, the most famous example being John F. Kennedy’s “ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
		Quotations like these last because they capture an abstract idea elegantly and concisely, so that it can be instantly grasped by a listener – whether it’s the virtue of civic responsibility or the principle of the separation of church and state.
		Tags: antimetabole, chiasmus, democrat, jamie raskin, maryland, same sex marriage
	www.robcottingham.ca /20060316/rewrite-the-quotation-books (511 words)

	Rhet Devices
		Antimetabole involves the repetition of words, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order; a chiasmus on the level of words (AB; BA).
		Antimetabole: Ask not what EWU can do for you, ask what you can do for EWU!
		Figures that repeat a phrase, a clause or an idea.
	home.comcast.net /~chantrill/concepts/Rhet_Devices/rhet_devices.html (939 words)

	OEDILF - Word Lookup
		Then the tough get to writing, my dear."
		Antimetabole (AN-tee-meh-TA-bo-lee) is the use of words in transposed order in successive clauses.
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	www.oedilf.com /db/Lim.php?Word=antimetabole (130 words)

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	Biographies Links Page
		Students and speechwriters may want to brush up on their own rhetorical figures with over 200 audio examples of common speaking devices.
		Who knew that both Prince and George W. Bush were so fond of antimetabole?
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		Logic was not taught until students reached the university, but it is obvious enough that the author of the First Folio was quite familiar with its terms; that author could not have been William of Stratford.
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