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Definitions
inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
Word origin
From Latin chiasmus, from Ancient Greek χῑασμός (khīasmós), from χῑάζω (khīázō, “to mark with an X”), from χ (kh, “chi”).
Used in a sentence
“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."”
“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.”
“The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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