{"id":18793,"date":"2026-07-03T12:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T19:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/?p=18793"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:21:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T01:21:59","slug":"antimetabole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/2026\/07\/03\/antimetabole\/","title":{"rendered":"Antimetabole"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>According to Wikipedia:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>In rhetoric, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Antimetabole\">antimetabole<\/a> [\u2026] is the repetition of words in successive clauses, but in transposed order; for example, \u201cI know what I like, and I like what I know\u201d.<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p>That Wikipedia entry provides a bunch more examples.<\/p>\r\n<p>My mind immediately went to a bit from the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikisource.org\/wiki\/Alice%27s_Adventures_in_Wonderland_(1866)\/Chapter_7\">Mad Tea Party<\/a>, in <cite>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/cite>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p>\u201cThen you should say what you mean,\u201d the March Hare went on.<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cI do,\u201d Alice hastily replied; \u201cat least\u2014at least I mean what I say\u2014that\u2019s the same thing, you know.\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cNot the same thing a bit!\u201d said the Hatter. \u201cWhy, you might just as well say that \u2018I see what I eat\u2019 is the same thing as \u2018I eat what I see\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cYou might just as well say,\u201d added the March Hare, \u201cthat \u2018I like what I get\u2019 is the same thing as \u2018I get what I like\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cYou might just as well say,\u201d added the Dormouse, who seemed to be talking in his sleep, \u201cthat \u2018I breathe when I sleep\u2019 is the same thing as \u2018I sleep when I breathe\u2019!\u201d<\/p>\r\n<p>\u201cIt <em>is<\/em> the same thing with you,\u201d said the Hatter[\u2026]<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rhetoric"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18793"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18795,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18793\/revisions\/18795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/words\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}