| Figure Name | anticategoria |
| Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm); Bullinger (1898) ("anticategoria; or, to quoque") |
| Earliest Source | None |
| Synonyms | tu quoque, accusatio adversa, translatio in adversarium |
| Etymology | Gr. "a counter-charge" from anti "against" and "to speak against" hence "to recriminate, to accuse in turn" |
| Type | Rhetorical Strategy |
| Linguistic Domain |
Semantic |
| Definition |
1. A retort in which one turns the very accusation made by one's adversary back against him. (Silva Rhetoricae) 2. The use of a Counter-Charge, or Recrimination... The figure is used when we retort upon another the very insinuation or accusation which he has made against us. It differs from Antistrophe; in that it has to do not with any general kinds of words, but with a particular accusation. (Bullinger, 932) |
| Example |
2. Ezek. 18:25. -"Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?" So verse 29, and 33:17. (Bullinger, 932) |
| Kind Of | Repetition |
| Part Of | |
| Related Figures | figures of refutation, metastasis. anteisagoge |
| Notes | |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Last Editor | Randy Harris |
| Confidence | Unconfident |
| Editorial Notes | I believe this is a chroma and a type of repetition, because one is repeating an accusation to the accuser. |
| Reviewed | No |