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In rhetoric, antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed grammatical order (for example, "I know what I like, and I like what I know"). It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus doesn't use repetition of the same words or phrases. Examples "Eat to live, not live to eat" - Attributed to Socrates "Live to fly, fly to live" - Iron Maiden's 1984 song Aces HighLatin: Miser ex potente fiat ex misero potens Seneca the Younger, Thyestes, Act I.10 (let it make miser… (More on Antimetabole)
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