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chiasmus

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8 lettersPronunciation /kaɪˈæzməs/Part of speech nounSorted achimssuStarts with CEnds with S0 clues
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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