Associations to the word «Antistrophe»

ANTISTROPHE, noun. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.

ANTISTROPHE, noun. (rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.

ANTISTROPHE, noun. (rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses

ANTISTROPHE, noun. The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him.

ANTISTROPHE, noun. The section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem.