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