*Not sure if this is what you're looking for. I've personally never heard of it.
http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric.htm45. Antimetabole*: reversing the order of repeated words or phrases (a loosely chiastic structure, AB-BA) to intensify the final formulation, to present alternatives, or to show contrast:
* All work and no play is as harmful to mental health as all play
and no work.
* Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for
you.
Ursula,
remembering that there's no money in poetry, but then, there's no poetry
in money either.
(but not remembering who said that and too lazy to look it up...) Paul Stone wrote:
Two unanswered questions from the years that nag at me day and night -- probably explains the panic attacks and the unending prescriptions: First (two parter) 1) is there a 'specific' name for the type of sentence uses a phrase and then follows with the same phrase but with two words switched: "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" in order to sound ironic/pithy/litotic/stupid (in the case of sports casters)? 1A) WHAT IS IT?
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