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Antimetabole

Index Antimetabole

In rhetoric, antimetabole is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order; for example, "I know what I like, and I like what I know". [1]

53 relations: All the Presidents' Heads, American Film Institute, Andrew W.K., Barack Obama, Billy Preston, Chiasmus, Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Danny Kaye, Dorothy Parker, Dr. Seuss, Figure of speech, Futurama, Gin and Juice, Greek language, Hamlet, Horton Hatches the Egg, I Palindrome I, Jimi Hendrix, John F. Kennedy, John Keats, John Wooden, Kingdom Hearts II, Latin, Love the One You're With, Malcolm X, Malcolm X (1992 film), Mystery Men, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Party Hard, Prince Ea, Profile Books, Rhetoric, Robert Smith (musician), Russian reversal, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Seneca the Younger, Shiro Amano, Snoop Dogg, Socrates, Stephen Stills, Symploce, System of a Down, System of a Down (album), The Court Jester, The Cure, They Might Be Giants, Thyestes, Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno, When the going gets tough, the tough get going, ..., William Ewart Gladstone, William Shakespeare, Yakov Smirnoff. Expand index (3 more) »

All the Presidents' Heads

"All the Presidents' Heads" is the twenty-third episode of the sixth season of the animated sitcom Futurama, and originally aired July 28, 2011 on Comedy Central.

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American Film Institute

The American Film Institute (AFI) is an American film organization that educates filmmakers and honors the heritage of the motion picture arts in the United States.

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Andrew W.K.

Andrew Fetterly Wilkes-Krier (born May 9, 1979), better known by his stagename Andrew W.K., is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and music producer.

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Barack Obama

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th President of the United States from January 20, 2009, to January 20, 2017.

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Billy Preston

William Everett Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American musician whose work included R&B, rock, soul, funk, and gospel.

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Chiasmus

In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, "to shape like the letter Χ") is a “reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words”.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Danny Kaye

Danny Kaye (born David Daniel Kaminsky; January 18, 1911 – March 3, 1987) was an American actor, singer, dancer, comedian and musician.

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Dorothy Parker

Dorothy Parker (née Rothschild; August 22, 1893 – June 7, 1967) was an American poet, writer, critic, and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th-century urban foibles.

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Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel (March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American author, political cartoonist, poet, animator, book publisher, and artist, best known for authoring more than 60 children's books under the pen name Doctor Seuss (abbreviated Dr. Seuss).

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Figure of speech

A figure of speech or rhetorical figure is figurative language in the form of a single word or phrase.

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Futurama

Futurama is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.

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Gin and Juice

"Gin and Juice" is the second single by rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg from his debut album Doggystyle.

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Greek language

Greek (Modern Greek: ελληνικά, elliniká, "Greek", ελληνική γλώσσα, ellinikí glóssa, "Greek language") is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea.

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Hamlet

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.

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Horton Hatches the Egg

Horton Hatches the Egg is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and published in 1940 by Random House.

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I Palindrome I

"I Palindrome I" is a single by American alternative rock duo They Might Be Giants.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy (May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963), commonly referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th President of the United States from January 1961 until his assassination in November 1963.

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John Keats

John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English Romantic poet.

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John Wooden

John Robert Wooden (October 14, 1910 – June 4, 2010) was an American basketball player and head coach at the University of California at Los Angeles.

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Kingdom Hearts II

is a 2005 action role-playing game developed and published by Square Enix for the PlayStation 2 video game console.

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Latin

Latin (Latin: lingua latīna) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages.

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Love the One You're With

"Love the One You're With" is a song by folk rocker Stephen Stills.

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Malcolm X

Malcolm X (19251965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist.

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Malcolm X (1992 film)

Malcolm X, sometimes stylized as X, is a 1992 American epic biographical drama film about the Afro-American activist Malcolm X. Directed and co-written by Spike Lee, the film stars Denzel Washington in the title role, as well as Angela Bassett, Albert Hall, Al Freeman, Jr., and Delroy Lindo.

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Mystery Men

Mystery Men is a 1999 American superhero comedy film directed by Kinka Usher and written by Neil Cuthbert and Bob Burden, loosely based on Burden's Flaming Carrot Comics, and starring Hank Azaria, Claire Forlani, Janeane Garofalo, Eddie Izzard, Greg Kinnear, William H. Macy, Kel Mitchell, Lena Olin, Paul Reubens, Geoffrey Rush, Ben Stiller, Wes Studi, and Tom Waits.

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

"Ode on a Grecian Urn" is a poem written by the English Romantic poet John Keats in May 1819 and published anonymously in the January 1820, Number 15, issue of the magazine Annals of the Fine Arts (see 1820 in poetry).

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Party Hard

"Party Hard" is a song by Andrew W.K., first released as a single in 2001 and included on his first album I Get Wet.

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Prince Ea

Richard Williams, better known by his stage name Prince Ea, is an American spoken word artist, poet, and filmmaker.

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Profile Books

Profile Books is a British independent book publishing firm founded in 1996.

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Rhetoric

Rhetoric is the art of discourse, wherein a writer or speaker strives to inform, persuade, or motivate particular audiences in specific situations.

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Robert Smith (musician)

Robert James Smith (born 21 April 1959) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Russian reversal

A Russian reversal is a type of joke, usually starting with the words "In Soviet Russia", in which the subject and objects of a statement are reversed, commonly as a snowclone pattern: "In America you to/with X, in Soviet Russia X to/with you." Sometimes the first part is omitted.

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Samuel Johnson

Samuel Johnson LL.D. (18 September 1709 – 13 December 1784), often referred to as Dr.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 177225 July 1834) was an English poet, literary critic, philosopher and theologian who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets.

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Seneca the Younger

Seneca the Younger AD65), fully Lucius Annaeus Seneca and also known simply as Seneca, was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and—in one work—satirist of the Silver Age of Latin literature.

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Shiro Amano

is a Japanese manga artist who has worked on several projects, including his adaptation on the popular ''Kingdom Hearts'' series.

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Snoop Dogg

Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. (born October 20, 1971), known professionally as Snoop Dogg, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality and actor.

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Socrates

Socrates (Sōkrátēs,; – 399 BC) was a classical Greek (Athenian) philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher, of the Western ethical tradition of thought.

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Stephen Stills

Stephen Arthur Stills (born January 3, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist best known for his work with Buffalo Springfield and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.

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Symploce

In rhetoric, symploce is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used successively at the beginning of two or more clauses or sentences and another word or phrase with a similar wording is used successively at the end of them.

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System of a Down

System of a Down, sometimes abbreviated as SOAD or colloquially referred to as System, is an heavy metal band from Glendale, California, formed in 1994.

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System of a Down (album)

System of a Down is the debut studio album by Armenian-American heavy metal band System of a Down, released on June 30, 1998, by American Recordings and Columbia Records.

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The Court Jester

The Court Jester is a 1956 musical-comedy film starring Danny Kaye, Glynis Johns, Basil Rathbone, Angela Lansbury and Cecil Parker.

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The Cure

The Cure are an English rock band formed in Crawley, West Sussex, in 1976.

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They Might Be Giants

They Might Be Giants (often abbreviated as TMBG) is an American alternative rock band formed in 1982 by John Flansburgh and John Linnell.

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Thyestes

In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced, Θυέστης) was the son of Pelops and Hippodamia.

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Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno

Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno is a Latin phrase that means "One for all, all for one" in English.

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When the going gets tough, the tough get going

"When the going gets tough, the tough get going" is a popular proverb.

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William Ewart Gladstone

William Ewart Gladstone, (29 December 1809 – 19 May 1898) was a British statesman of the Liberal Party.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.

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Yakov Smirnoff

Yakov Naumovich Pokhis (Яков Наумович Похис; born 24 January 1951), better known as Yakov Smirnoff, is a Soviet-born Ukrainian-American comedian, actor and writer.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antimetabole

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