Antilabe

The Antilabe (Greek ἀντιλαβή "Wider grip, handle " ) is a rhetorical figure for the design of dialogue in a verse drama in which a belonging together by the rhythm of her spoken Dramenvers - line to two or more people distributed in mostly incomplete sentences. Such a battle of words a significant dynamic and powerful dramatization of the dialogue is achieved. Despite this division of the verse is kept stable at the same time. A Antilabe is practically the increase of stichomythia ( change the speaking figure from line to line ), as this takes place, this change even within a line of verse. The Antilabe often been highlighted in the typeface that the second (and possibly third, etc.) part is engaged.

An example of a Antilabe is found in Goethe's Faust II, where the five elevations of a verse are divided into three sections speech. For clarity, the stressed syllables are highlighted here in bold:

Wagner's " Meistersinger " (I 3):

Kothner: Nikolaus Vogel? - Be silent?

A APPRENTICE: Is sick.

Kothner: Good ' Beßrung the Master!

The Masters: Walt's God!

The APPRENTICE: Nice ' Thanks!