meaning of antistrophe
1. In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. Hence: The lines of this part of the choral song.
2. The repetition of words in an inverse order; as, the master of the servant and the servant of the master.
3. The retort or turning of an adversarys plea against him.
4. the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
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