(Sorry I didn't post this yesterday.)
Definition: A verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed.
Example: "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." - Cormac McCarthy
Let's just finish this round with the two people who haven't gone twice. I'll add two more that seem different/important to remember. That way, we'll have 15 to review with a quiz this week!
ReplyDelete"I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."
ReplyDelete-Ovid
"Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate."
ReplyDeleteJohn Kennedy
"You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget."
ReplyDelete(Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006)
"He who opens
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and shuts
and no one opens." - Revelation 3:7
All for one and one for all!
ReplyDelete"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life” The Great Gatsby
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