Antimetathesis (an-ti-me-ta’-the-sis): Inversion of the members of an antithesis.
The farther I climbed up, the farther things were down below, but nothing’s up that’s not below—the flowers, the trees upon the earth, below the sky.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).