单词 | antistrophe |
释义 | antistrophe/anˈtɪstrəfi![]() noun The second section of an ancient Greek choral ode or of one division of it. Compare with strophe.This was a ‘regular ode’ in that it closely followed Pindar's scheme of all strophes and antistrophes conforming to one stanzaic pattern, and all epodes following another....
OriginMid 16th century (as a term in rhetoric denoting the repetition of words in reverse order): via late Latin from Greek antistrophē, from antistrephein 'turn against', from anti 'against' + strephein 'to turn'. |
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