[lit-ideas] Re: housekeeping
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:43:02 -0400
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Eric Yost <mr.eric.yost@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> 45. Antimetabole*:
>
> * Ask not what you can do for rhetoric, but what rhetoric can do for
> you.
>
>
> Isn't this a simple chiasmus?
>
not what I'm looking for. I think Antimetabole is a form of chiasmus,
but not vice versa. The key here lies in using the same words exactly,
but in reverse form. I think A is more correct than C for what I was
groping in the dark for. BUT... I knew where to come and like finding
a child, if it doesn't happen in the first 24 hours, you ain't gonna.
Luckily for me, the wealth of triviata is here to stay.
thanks again to all who participated, there is a fresh lolli in the mail,
p
p.s. that's right, I know where you live!
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