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chiasmus::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Type of | rhetorical device |
Examples of chiasmus
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At least it inspired us to redo the chiasmus contest we last did in 1999.
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It is also called chiasmus, chiastic structure, or simply ring structure.
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In true academic fashion, Garber loves that kind of commutative construction, the chiasmus.
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Ancient Hebrew poetry relied on repetition, alliteration, and chiasmus for many of its effects.
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The entire book follows the structure of a chiasmus in which parallelism of thought is used to bracket sections of the text.
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Like Irigaray, Jacques Derrida, in criticizing Lacan's concept of castration, discusses the phallus in a chiasmus with the hymen, as both one and other.
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The use of such devices as asyndeton, anaphora, and chiasmus reflect preference for the old-fashioned Latin style of Cato to the Ciceronian periodic structure of his own era.
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- Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
- In rhetoric, chiasmus (Latin term from Greek u03C7u03AFu03B1u03C3u03BCu03B1, "crossing", from the Greek u03C7u03B9u03ACu03B6u03C9, chiu00E1zu014D, "to shape like the letter u03A7") is the figure of speech in which two or more clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; that is, the clauses display inverted parallelism...
- An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases
- Word order reversal in two otherwise parallel phrases, as syntactic reversal or ideational exchange, also known as "convertible statement" or "reversible raincoat sentence" (eg: "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, and familiar things new. ...
- Repetition of any group of verse elements in reverse order.
- (from Greek, "cross" or "x"): A literary scheme in which the author introduces words or concepts in a particular order, then later repeats those terms or similar ones in reversed or backwards order. ...
- A pair of clauses or phrases where the second has the same syntax as the first except that the ordering is reversed. ...
- This is an arrangement of a series of statements in which there is a correspondence between the first and the last, between the second and the second last, and so on. This is symbolized ABBA, ABCCBA, using as many letters as there are levels of correspondence.
- An inverted parallelism; the reversal of the order of corresponding words or phrases (with or without exact repetition) in successive clauses which are usually parallel in syntax, as in Pope's "a fop their passion, but their prize a sot," or Goldsmith's "to stop too fearful, and too faint to go. ...
