Chiasmus: "A verbal pattern (a type of antithesis) in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first with the parts reversed." (Richard Nordquist, About.com)
Examples:
"I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me." (Ovid)
"If black men have no rights in the eyes of the white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks." (Frederick Douglass, "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage")
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." (William Shakespeare, Macbeth I.i)
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