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Retire something

Posted on February 17, 2011 by admin

Don’t simply retire from something. Have something to retire to. -Henry Emerson Fosdick. The Greek figure and/or rhetorical device is antimetabole, as the retire-something-something-retire creates an obvious ABBA pattern using the exact same words, which distinguishes it from a chiasmus. … Continue reading →

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