What's the figure of speech used in "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."?

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Is it epanalepsis or antimetabole?

Brian Hitchcock · Accepted Answer

Antanaclasis. Review the examples shown here:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antanaclasis

Leon Conrad · Answer

It's part Antanaclasis, but that is nested within an overarching chiasmus structure.
a,b,b,a, usually in an antithetical pairing.
An example is found in Leapor's 'An Essay on Woman':

Despised, if ugly; if she's fair, betrayed.

What's the figure of speech used in "Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."?

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