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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antistrophe::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of antistrophe
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For the use of antistrophe in figures of speech, see Epistrophe.
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It is also known as epiphora and occasionally as antistrophe.
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A strophe forms the first part of the ode in Ancient Greek tragedy, followed by the antistrophe and epode.
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For example, the strophe, antistrophe and epode of the ode form are often separated into one or more stanzas.
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The chorus'lyricalode, to which they dance as they sing, consists of two paired stanzas of strophe and antistrophe.
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The arrangement of an ode in a splendid and consistent artifice of strophe, antistrophe and epode was carried to its height by Pindar.
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Pindar's epinician odes, where strophe and antistrophe are followed by an epode, represent an expansion of the same basic principle.
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The story is made up of an introduction and a complaint by Anelida which is in turn made up of a proem, a strophe, antistrophe and a conclusion.
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Antistrophe was also a kind of ancient dance, wherein dancers stepped sometimes to the right, and sometimes to the left, still doubling their turns or conversions.
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- The section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem
- Antistrophe (Greek: u1F00u03BDu03C4u03B9u03C3u03C4u03C1u03BFu03C6u03AE, "a turning back") is the portion of an ode sung by the chorus in its returning movement from west to east, in response to the strophe, which was sung from east to west.
- In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. ...
- Literally a turning about or opposite turning, one part of a stasimon; in ancient Greek theatre, the term applied to a part of a stasimon that corresponds metrically to a previously sung part (the strophe); the term is used because of the dancing movements of the chorus, which would be opposite ...
- The second part of an ode, metrically identical to the strophe but telling the "other side" of the tale.
- The repetition of words in an inverse order. "The master of the servant and the servant of the master."
- In rhetoric, repeating the last word in successive phrases. For example (from Rhetorica ad Herennium), "'Since the time when from our state concord disappeared, liberty disappeared, good faith disappeared, friendship disappeared, the common weal disappeared.'" Also see epiphora.
- An antistrophe is the last of three series of lines forming the divisions of each section of a Pindaric ode.
- Second part of the triad in a Pindaric Ode. [The 'Counter-turn'.] Compare epode and strophe.
