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chi·as·mus C0284100 (kī-ăz′məs)n. pl. chi·as·mi (-mī′) A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in "Each throat / Was parched, and glazed each eye" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
[New Latin chīasmus, from Greek khīasmos, syntactic inversion, from khīazein, to invert or mark with an X; see chiasma.]chiasmus (kaɪˈæzməs) n, pl -mi (-maɪ) (Rhetoric) rhetoric reversal of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases: he came in triumph and in defeat departs. [C19: from New Latin, from Greek khiasmos crisscross arrangement; see chiasma] chiastic adjchi•as•mus (kaɪˈæz məs)
n., pl. -mi (-mī). a reversal in the order of words in two parallel phrases, as in “He went in, out went she.” [1870–75; < Greek chiasmós; see chiasma] chi•as′tic (-ˈæs tɪk) adj. chiasmusa reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as “flowers are lovely, love is flowerlike” (Coleridge). — chiastic, adj.See also: Rhetoric and Rhetorical DeviceschiasmusThe reversal in a second parallel phrase of the order of words in an initial phrase.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | chiasmus - inversion in the second of two parallel phrasesrhetorical device - a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
TranslationsChiasmusquiasmochiasmeхиазмChiasmusenUK
Chiasmus a type of antithetical parallelism in which the parts of two parallel elements are placed in reverse sequence, in the pattern ab = b1a1. An example is “It was not a grass-blade in the open field that was nodding,/Nodding was my poor little homeless head.” Sometimes the sense of parallelism is maintained by the repeating of intermediate words in the pattern abc = c1ba1, as in Pushkin’s lines Avtomedony nashi boiki,/Neutomimy nashi troiki (“Lively our Automedons,/Our troikas tireless”). chiasmusenUK
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