Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases
For a synonym of a genus of beetles, see Chiasmetes. For application of chiasmus on larger scale structure, see chiastic structure. For a German government block cipher, see Chiasmus (cipher). For other meanings of "chiasm", see Chiasm.
In rhetoric, chiasmus (/kaɪˈæzməs/ky-AZ-məs) or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, "to shape like the letter Χ"), is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words".[1]
A similar device, antimetabole, also involves a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses in an A-B-B-A configuration, but unlike chiasmus, presents a repetition of words.[2]
or clauses in an A-B-B-A configuration, but unlike chiasmus, presents a repetition of words. Chiasmus balances words or phrases with similar, though not...
Book of Mormon have argued that examples of chiasmus can be found in the Book of Mormon, and that such chiasmus is evidence of the text's historical authenticity...
compositions", or, in cases of very ambitious chiasmus, "onion-ring compositions". These may be regarded as chiasmus scaled up from words and clauses to larger...
Barolineocerus chiasmus is a species of leafhopper native to French Guiana. The length is 4.0–4.3 millimetres (0.16–0.17 in). It is named for the thin...
generation. The concept is generally distinct from those of an adage, brocard, chiasmus, epigram, maxim (legal or philosophical), principle, proverb, and saying;...
intertwined (interwoven) in a cell An instantiation of chiasmus Chiasmetes, a genus of beetles Chiasmus, the figure of speech in which two or more clauses...
of alliteration which demonstrates parallelism or chiasmus. In symmetrical alliteration with chiasmus, the phrase must have a pair of outside end words...
antithesis or chiasmus. Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country. — John F Kennedy, Inaugural Address Chiasmus involves...
I know". It is related to, and sometimes considered a special case of, chiasmus. An antimetabole can be predictive, because it is easy to reverse the terms...
crucifixion (crux, stauros), was taken to be T-shaped, while the X-shape ("chiasmus") had different connotations. There has been scholarly speculation on the...
that chiasmus in the Book of Mormon is a characteristic of Joseph Smith's speech pattern and not evidence of antiquity. They cite the use of chiasmus in...
morning. [...] For Jean-Jacques Robrieux, epanadiplosis is a figure close to chiasmus, as in this line by Victor Hugo, in which the indefinite pronoun “rien”...
The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase is a non-fiction book by Mark Forsyth published in 2013. The book explains classical...
which they're given (most commonly English). Antimetabole Anti-proverb Chiasmus Russian reversal Spoonerism Pollack, John (2012). The Pun Also Rises. Gotham...
around 600 BC. Joseph Spencer suggests that Isaiah appears as a sort of chiasmus in Nephi’s record, sandwiched between Jacob’s and Nephi’s explanations...
figures. The major focus has been to detect specific figures, such as chiasmus, epanaphora, and epiphora using classifiers trained with labeled data....
for encrypted messages. KMail also supports S/MIME messages as well as Chiasmus, a proprietary cryptographic system created by the German Federal Office...
Journal of Buddhist Philosophy, Vol. 2, 2016. Orsborn, Matthew Bryan. "Chiasmus in the Early Prajñāpāramitā: Literary Parallelism Connecting Criticism...
2014: 153–62. Palmerino, Gregory, “The Immigrant and the Child at Home: Chiasmus as a Narrative Technique in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “Mrs. Sen’s””, Journal of the...
carefully written, as accidental.[citation needed] Synchysis may be opposed to chiasmus, which is a phrase in the form A-B-B-A, either in the same line or in two...
criticizing Lacan's concept of castration, discusses the phallus in a chiasmus with the hymen, as both one and other. Lacan considered psychic functions...
MacAdam/Cage. 2006. ISBN 978-1596921641. The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Chiasmus Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0981502748. Ledfeather. Fiction Collective 2. 2008...
(Duffy 2008, p. 51). For more on chiasmus in the Bible, see Breck, John (1994). The Shape of Biblical Language: Chiasmus in the Scriptures and Beyond. St...
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