OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 7279

chiasmus

/kaɪˈæzməs/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
quiasmo
An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
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."
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 t…
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