Chiasmus | Chiasmus Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration
Chiasmus | Chiasmus Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration
Chiasmus | Chiasmus Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration
Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures. This figure is used in order to produce an artistic effect.
Examples:
- Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.
In this statement, the order of words in the first clause (i.e. Beauty is truth) is reversed in the second (i.e. truth is beauty)
- Fair is foul and foul is fair. –Shakespeare
- We live to learn and learn to live.
- For the sky and the sea, and the seas and the sky
Lay like a load on my weary eye. –Coleridge
- Never let a fool kiss you or a kiss fool you.
- You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.
- Do I love you because you are beautiful?
Or are you beautiful because I love you? 0 0 0.
Chiasmus Meaning
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N. B. The article ‘Chiasmus | Chiasmus Meaning, Definition, Examples, Illustration‘ originally belongs to the book ‘The Rhetoric‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
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