What are sentence that read the same forward or backward called? Example: Sueno un sueno. Pregunta una pregunta
What is the gramatical term used to describe sentences that read the same forward as backward?
Example: Sueno un sueno. Pregunta una pregunta
6 Answers
I know it as a palindrome or palíndromo.
Palindromes, if they are precise to the letter - for example: Madam I'm Adam.
Another good example:
A Man, A Plan, A Canal - Panama.
In your question, you wrote a "word palindrome". From the Wikipedia article on Palindromes, there's this interesting section on Word Palindromes:
Some palindromes use words as units rather than letters. Examples are "Fall leaves after leaves fall", "You can cage a swallow, can't you, but you can't swallow a cage, can you?", "First Ladies rule the State and state the rule: ladies first" and "Girl, bathing on Bikini, eyeing boy, sees boy eyeing bikini on bathing girl". The command "Level, madam, level!", composed only of words that are themselves palindromes, is both a character-by-character and a word-by-word palindrome.
I found the Spanish article, Palíndromo, has lots of great examples in Spanish!
Palindromes; some people are very good at creating them.Here are a few more:
'Ten animals I slam in a net.'
'Too bad I hid a boot.'
'Was it a car or a cat I saw?'
'Rats live on no evil star.'
'Do geese see God?'
'A dog, a panic, in a pagoda.'
Does anyone have any more en español?
Pesta is right, (Palindromes) but here's some more examples to play with. 
http://www.palindromelist.net/
This song makes me giggle wildly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nej4xJe4Tdg
