antistrophe

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun

In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
The lines of this part of the choral song.
The repetition of words in an inverse order.
The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

antistrophe antistrophes

Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).

epistrophe

antistrophic antistrophon

antistrophize

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