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Chiasmus

//kaɪˈæzməs// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

    "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[…]"

  2. 2
    inversion in the second of two parallel phrases wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek χῑασμός (khīasmós), from χῑάζω (khīázō, “to mark with an X”), from χ (kh, “chi”).

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