antimetabole - 01/25/04 01:46 PM
Antimetabole: Balancing one clause against another by reversing the grammatical order of the second clause, making the second clause a grammatical mirror-image of the first . See also chiasmus.
While no one should be dying to eat, neither should they be eating to die.
Never mind how life is treating you; how are you treating life?
A famous example from a JFK speech:
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can
do for your country.
A bit of trivia: When I saw "metabole" it made me think of
metabolism. I once put some beans in a bird feeder. They birds would not touch them. I finally learned that there
is a substance in uncooked beans that inhibits an important
digestive enzyme. Somehow the birds know that they cannot
digest the beans.
While no one should be dying to eat, neither should they be eating to die.
Never mind how life is treating you; how are you treating life?
A famous example from a JFK speech:
Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can
do for your country.
A bit of trivia: When I saw "metabole" it made me think of
metabolism. I once put some beans in a bird feeder. They birds would not touch them. I finally learned that there
is a substance in uncooked beans that inhibits an important
digestive enzyme. Somehow the birds know that they cannot
digest the beans.