chiasmus
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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."
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- noun A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in "Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
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- Not even Farrar, in his Greek Syntax, or some greater man, knew more examples of chiasmus, asyndeton, or hendiadys. — The Private Life of Henry Maitland
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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,
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- New Latin chīasmus, from Greek khīasmos, syntactic inversion, from khīazein, to invert or mark with an X; see chiasma.
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/ (kī-ăzˈməs)/
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