Figures of Speech – Chiasmus
What is chiasmus?
Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. In other words, the clauses display inverted parallelism.
Examples:
These are examples of chiasmus:
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List of Figures of Speech in the English Language – Literary Devices |
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Accumulation | Climax | Metalepsis |
Adjunction | Dysphemism | Metaphor |
Adnomination | Ellipsis | Metonymy |
Alliteration | Euphemism | Simile |
Allusion | Epigram | Synecdoche |
Anaphora | Epiphora (or epistrophe) | Tautology |
Antanaclasis | Hyperbole | Understatement |
Anticlimax | Hypophora | Zeugma and syllepsis |
Antiphrasis | Irony | |
Antithesis | Litotes | |
Apostrophe | Oxymoron | |
Assonance | Personification | |
Cataphora | Puns | |
Chiasmus | Merism |
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