Antimétabole

A antimétabole is a Stylistic device which are composed at the same time of a Anadiplose and a épanadiplose. It consists of the use of the same word under several directions in the same statement.

Examples

“childhood knows what she wants, she wants to leave childhood. ” (Jean Cocteau)
“the metaphoricity is the contamination of logic and the logic of the contamination. ” (Jacques Derrida)
“philosophy, like theory of the metaphor, will have initially been a metaphor of the theory. ” (Derrida)
“And in this fiction of the truth, America would be the title of a new novel for the déconstruction of the history and the history of the déconstruction. ” (Derrida)
“the State of consciousness is the conscience of a State. ” (Sartre)
“the walls have ears. The ears have walls. ” (slogan of May 68)
“Nothing will see more, I will not see more anything” (Victor Hugo)
“It is necessary to eat to live and not to live to eat” (Cicéron)
“Where the real-world changes into simple images, the simple images become real beings. ” (Guy Overflow)

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