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chiasmus
English
Etymology
From Latin chiasmus, from Ancient Greek ??????? (khiasmós), from ????? (khiáz?, “to mark with a chi”), from ? (kh, “chi”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka??æzm?s/
Noun
chiasmus (countable and uncountable, plural chiasmi or chiasmuses)
- (rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
- 1934, H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund "The Literary Structure of the Book of Habakkuk", Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (4): 355.
- The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […]
- 1984, Ethel Grodzins Romm, "Persuasive Writing", American Bar Association Journal 70: 158.
- John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
- John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:
- 2002, Simon R. Slings, "Figures of Speech in Aristophanes", in Andreas Willi (editor), The Language of Greek Comedy, pages 103-104
- Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural.
- 1934, H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund "The Literary Structure of the Book of Habakkuk", Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (4): 355.
Derived terms
- chiastic
Synonyms
- chiasm
Related terms
- chiasma
Translations
Further reading
- chiasmus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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chiasmas
English
Noun
chiasmas
- plural of chiasma
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