Epanodos

The epanodos (altgriech .: ἐπάνοδος; lat .: regressio ) is a figure of speech , the set of members of two sets or subsets over cross arranges; The peculiarity of the Epanodos is the recurrence of the words used in reverse - chiastic - order.

Examples

"Those who can't do what they want want what they can."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"Well, you have to take life as it is, or life is as you take it."

- Stanley Motss, in Wag the Dog

"If you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with!"

- Stephen Stills

literature

• Heinrich Lausberg : Handbook of literary rhetoric. A foundation of literary studies. 3rd edition, with a foreword by Arnold Arens . Franz Steiner, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-515-05503-7 , p. 393, § 798.