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Antimetathesis

Antimetathesis (an-ti-me-ta’-the-sis): Inversion of the members of an antithesis.

The limit of joy is sorrow’s boundary and sorrow’s limit is the boundary of joy.

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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).