Chiasmus

Had this been said by Gucci Mane, I'd use it as further evidence of his learning disability. hey i learned the word chiasmus posted by ❋ Unknown (2010)

But they slipped the code-word "chiasmus" into their conversation so that I could identify them. ❋ James F. McGrath (2009)

In many pages of protracted rumination, Corngold intermixed his own insights with already enigmatic passages from Kafka, thus producing (often specious) effects of "chiasmus" yielding a "boundless field of incessant metaphorical exchange" (p. 121), a "free play between given metaphors which accommodates new metaphors at the same time that it robs each of determinate meaning" (p. 123), and "a movement of thought that spirals on through endless reversals" (p. 153). ❋ Corngold, Stanley (2005)

Allegorizing poetic presence, Coleridge not only suggests that sound, like light, is a powerline through the air; he's also working with the chiasmus of sound as a phonological paradigm. ❋ Unknown (2008)

According to Virginia Tenzer, the fact that only one taper at Urbino is lit suggests that this virtue is enacted in the present, at the chiasmus of the past and future, and "that prudence is a habit of mind exercised by Federico" (Iconography, 198). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Chesterton ' s love of chiasmus — the ABBA pattern in which repetition involves reversal. ❋ Henry Hitchings (2010)

But while chiasmus and ellipsis were familiar, many of his terms were new to me. ❋ Henry Hitchings (2010)

The celebrated inversion of words, or chiasmus, to which Sorensen's quip alludes -- "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country" -- stands as the most remembered snippet from what's commonly thought of as a summons to sacrifice. ❋ David Greenberg (2009)

Not as a call to battle, though embattled we are, that would be both chiasmus and plyptoton. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Which nations are better versed in Cohen's vision of human relations, in bible-like chiasmus: "when it all comes down to dust, I will kill you if I must, I will help you if I can; when it all comes down to dust, I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can." ❋ Unknown (2009)

The use of chiasmus (the inversion of elements in two parallel phrases) underscores the standing of the women: Hannah is the primary wife, yet Peninnah has succeeded in bearing children. ❋ Abensohn (2009)

Once more Heidegger is careful when dealing with this “reversal” Umkehrung: Here the chiasmus can no longer play out since we have arrived at the central point where the four branches are crossed, at the simple point without dimension that sheds light without being itself part of the clearing. ❋ Enowning (2009)

Heraclitus uses alliteration (four m-words in a row) and chiasmus ❋ Unknown (2009)

Catullus then goes on to refer to Furius and Aurelius, the addressees of the poem with the lovely chiasmus: “Aureli pathice et cinaede Furi.” ❋ Sam Jordison (2009)

If we were to delve into the vertiginous levels of emptiness progressively proclaimed in this chiasmus, this essay would be many times its current length. ❋ Unknown (2007)

It has the repetition and sound of two memorable figures found in famous political quotes, antithesis, ( "voted for" versus "voted against"), and chiasmus, words repeated in inverse order (in this case, "I .. vote for" and "before I voted"). ❋ Unknown (2008)

[leges] supplicio improbos afficiunt, defendunt ac tuentur [bonos] ([Cicero], De Legibus, ii. 13) The laws VISIT PUNISHMENTS upon the wicked, but the good they DEFEND and PROTECT. ❋ Mihailoff (2005)

Guy: Girl you be looking [chiasmus] today! Girl: [Yea] [i know]. ❋ Davethemaster (2011)

WOW, [Igor], that [sentence] is [soooo]/super chiasmusical ❋ Boris Julia Lee (2008)