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February 19, 2009

A Chiasmus is clever, and sometimes clever is a Chiasmus.

Chiasmus--A lovely little word, originated in Greece like all the other lovely little words. The defenition had eluded me until now--how have I made it all these years without Chiasmus.

Chiasmus: A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as he went to the theatre, but home went she.
The American Heritage Dictionary; 2nd College Edition

Posted by QuinnKerno at February 19, 2009 2:32 PM

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