The chiasmus, for instance, literally a ` placing crosswise, 'concerns a crossing word-order, as in noun-adjective, adjective noun:— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
Pope's Essay on Man shows a more complex type of chiasmus: "The rising tempest puts in act the soul,/Parts it may ravage, but preserve the whole."— VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1
[166] This is a good example of the figure chiasmus, the force of which I have expressed by the bracketed words repeated from the two infinities.— Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
Always avoided chiasmus,— NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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