Antistrophe
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Antistrophe is a noun meaning In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
Meaning
In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left.
More Meanings
- The lines of this part of the choral song.
- (rhetoric) The repetition of words in an inverse order.
- (rhetoric) The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses
Word Forms
- antistrophes
Synonyms for antistrophe
Depending on context, synonyms include epistrophe.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include strophe, parodos, antode, antistrophon, epode, parabasis.
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