chiasmus

• 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
• He enjoys wordplay: puns, chiasmus, unexpected and creative repetition. —  Bookslut
• Machiavelli uses chiasmus (a mirrored statement that swaps the subjects) e.g. "... so, to comprehend fully the nature of people, one must be a prince, and to comprehend fully the nature of the princes one must be an ordinary citizen." —  Soob
• He begins by directing his readers to Henry Louis Gates's edition of the slave narratives of Equiano, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs and Mary Prince; it was Gates who influentially observed that the central rhetorical strategy of slave narration is chiasmus: the twinned perspectives of the narrating slave, writing in the present as the tale's author and subject, remembering a former consciousness as an object. —  Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
• The disciples of Wellhausen who created the NAB insert a section title right in the middle of v. 2: 4, thereby disrupting the clearly deliberate chiasmus by which Moses linked the preceding narrative to the succeeding. —  Latest Articles

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