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The hottest rhetorical device of campaign 2008.

Sep 6 2008

Etymology

It is derived from the Greek ἀντιμεταβολή (antimetabolḗ), from ἀντί (antí, 'against, opposite') and μεταβολή (metabolḗ, 'turning about, change').

Examples

• "Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno" ("One for all, all for one")
• "Eat to live, do not live to eat." —Socrates (presumably)
• "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." —John F. Kennedy, 1961 inaugural address
• "There is no 'way to peace'. Peace is the way." —A. J. Muste
• "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." —Mark 2:27²
• "When the going gets tough, the tough get going."
• "You need to change how you see things in order for the things you see to change."
• "With my mind on my money and my money on my mind." —Snoop Dogg in the song "Gin and Juice"
• "In America, you can always find a party. In Soviet Russia, Party always finds you!" —Yakov Smirnoff
• "The great object of [Hamlet's] life is defeated by continually resolving to do, yet doing nothing but resolve." —Samuel Taylor Coleridge on William Shakespeare's Hamlet
• "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock. The rock was landed on us." —Malcolm X³
• "He was just the man for such a place, and it was just the place for such a man." —Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass⁴
• "Are you the strongest because you're Satoru Gojo? Or are you Satoru Gojo because you're the strongest?"—Suguru Geto, Jujutsu Kaisen
• "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" —William Shakespeare, Macbeth⁵
• "And we'll lead, not merely by the example of our power, but by the power of our example." —Joe Biden, 2021 inaugural address⁶
• "All crime is vulgar, just as all vulgarity is crime" —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray⁷
• "I'm hoping that somebody pray for me, I'm praying that somebody hope for me." —JID in the song "Enemy"
• “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” —Benjamin Franklin
• ""Son, I am able," she said. "Though you scare me." "Watch" said I. "Beloved," I said, "Watch me scare you, though." Said she, "Able am I, son."" —They Might Be Giants, "I Palindrome I"
• "Putin...wanted to see the Finlandization of NATO. I told [the President of Finland], he's...gonna get the Natoization of Finland." —Joe Biden, in interview with Time Magazine⁸

See also

• Anadiplosis
• Chiasmus
• Figure of speech
• In Soviet Russia
• Rhetoric
• Symploce

• Corbett, Edward P.J. Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student. Oxford University Press, New York, 1971.

External links

• Audio examples of antimetabole at americanrhetoric.com
• Lapidos, Juliet (September 5, 2008). "The Hottest Rhetorical Device of Campaign '08". Slate.com. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
• Lapidos, Juliet (September 19, 2008). "The Old Switcheroo". On The Media. National Public Radio. Archived from the original on October 23, 2009. Retrieved October 8, 2021.
• Antimetabole detector at lingfil.uu.se

References

1. Fahnestock, Jeanne (1999). Rhetorical Figures in Science. Oxford University Press. pp. 123–134. ↩

2. "Mark 2:23-28 NIV". Bible Gateway. https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=mark%202:23-28&version=NIV ↩

3. "Malcolm X: Speech excerpt "Ballot or the Bullet"". https://search.alexanderstreet.com/preview/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C2787250 ↩

4. Douglass, Frederick (1995). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, Inc. p. 13. ISBN 0-486-28499-9. 0-486-28499-9 ↩

5. Shakespeare, William. Macbeth. Act I, Scene 1, 12. /wiki/Macbeth ↩

6. "Inauguration Speech". The New York Times. US Capitol. January 20, 2021. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/us/politics/biden-inauguration-speech-transcript.html ↩

7. Wilde, Oscar (2000). The Picture of Dorian Gray. London: Penguin Classics. p. 203. ↩

8. "Read the Full Transcript of President Joe Biden's Interview With TIME". Times Magazine. The White House. May 28, 2024. https://time.com/6984968/joe-biden-transcript-2024-interview/ ↩