antistrophe vs metaphor

antistrophe

noun
  • The retort or turning of an adversary's plea against him. 

  • The lines of this part of the choral song. 

  • The repetition of a word or phrase at the end of successive clauses 

  • In Greek choruses and dances, the returning of the chorus, exactly answering to a previous strophe or movement from right to left. 

  • The repetition of words in an inverse order. 

metaphor

noun
  • A word or phrase used in such implied comparison. 

  • The use of a word or phrase to refer to something other than its literal meaning, invoking an implicit similarity between the thing described and what is denoted by the word or phrase. 

  • The use of an everyday object or concept to represent an underlying facet of the computer and thus aid users in performing tasks. 

verb
  • To use a metaphor. 

  • To describe by means of a metaphor. 

How often have the words antistrophe and metaphor occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )