antistrophe
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The deceased was the tragic hero, the survivors the innocent victims; there was the omnipresence of the deity, strophe and antistrophe of the chorus of mourners led by the preacher.
From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison
We may yield to no one in the delight of tracing the exact correspondence of strophe and antistrophe in a Greek chorus, the subtle vowel-music of a Latin hymn or a passage of Rossetti's.
From Sir Walter Scott Famous Scots Series by Saintsbury, George
The conversation was a prolonged paean to the host, with choral strophe and antistrophe.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. by Various
The second is only a distant imitation of the antistrophe.
From Gryll Grange by Peacock, Thomas Love
Strophe, strōf′e, n. in the ancient drama, the song sung by the chorus while dancing towards one side of the orchestra, to which its reverse, the antistrophe, answers.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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Reading: Literature - Drama - High School
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Ancient Greece: Mythology and Literature - High School
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