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What is antanagoge?

What is antanagoge? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (rhetoric) Answering the charge of an adversary by a countercharge.
  2. (rhetoric) Offsetting a proposition with an opposing proposition in one's own speech or writing.
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The force ot the antanagoge showed him that an accusation may gain impetus by its rebound.
The speech provides an excellent example of the figure antanagoge, a figure of reasoning and evaluation, the balancing of a fault with a strength or admirable quality.

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