antistrophe
nounEtymology Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).
1
In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
2
The lines of this part of the choral song.
3
Rhetoric The repetition of words in an inverse order.
4
Rhetoric The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
- Derived terms
- antistrophize
- Related terms
- antistrophic, antistrophon