metabole

Figure Name metabole
Source De Mille (1882)
Earliest Source
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Etymology
Type Scheme
Linguistic Domain Lexicographic
Syntactic
Definition

1. 90. METABOLE.
Metabole is the repetition of similar ideas:
"I entreat you by your love of peace; by your hatred of oppression; by your weariness of burdensome and useless taxation." (De Mille)
Example

Kind Of Opposition
Symmetry
Repetition
Series
Part Of
Related Figures paralellism, antimetabole
Notes
Confidence Unconfident
Last Editor Samantha Price
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