Antimetabole

As antimetabole (from gr ἀντι > against, otherwise < and μεταβάλλο > upset, turn ') is referred to in the rhetoric of a syntactic figure, where words are used in two sets in opposite order. It is similar to chiasmus, but not the same words or phrases resumes, but similar patterns faces. Often the antimetabole goes hand in hand with an antithesis:

• We do not live to work, we work to live.
• It is not the consciousness of men that determines their existence, but their social existence that determines their consciousness. (Karl Marx)

• Rhetorical term