antistrophe

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noun the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem

Borrowed from Latin antistrophe, from Ancient Greek ἀντιστροφή (antistrophḗ, “turning about”).

It was an antistrophe of twang and drawl: "Gee, you durned fool, watcha want gointa business for?" — The best short stories of 1920, and the yearbook of the American short story, Unknown
It is easy to see how question and answer, strophe and antistrophe, are simply a development and division out of the crowd with one voice, as in the Greek chorus. — The Beginnings of Poetry, Francis Barton Gummere
O Arcadian hills, antistrophe. Send us the Youth whom ye hide, Girt with his coat for the chase, With the low broad hat of the tann'd Hunter o'ershadowing his brow; Grasping firm, in his hand Advanced, two javelins, not now Dangerous alone to the deer! — Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold, Matthew Arnold

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