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Antimetabole

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An`ti`me`tab´o`le
n.1.(Rhet.) A figure in which the same words or ideas are repeated in transposed order.


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For Dubrow, reading closely in the 1990s for that life-giving irony is Aristotelian and therapeutic, called for by her beloved readers, caught in their own cultural antimetabole and carrying the burden of interpretation.
Echoes of Desire: English Petrarchism and Its Counterdiscourses by Sessions, W.A. / Renaissance Quarterly
In an antimetabole beloved by adherents of theory, Heigerson says that as England wrote ("authored/authorized" [12]) Hakluyt, so Hakluyt wrote ("authored/authorized" England, meaning that he shaped English mercantilist self-consciousness.
Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England by Hieatt, A. Kent / Renaissance Quarterly
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