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Noun Concept
Categories: Figures of speech, Articles with short description
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chiasmus  chiastic  Chiastic quotation
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Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases WordNet 3.0
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Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm, is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words". Wikipedia
Reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases Wikidata
A figure of speech which consists of an inversion of the word order in the second of two otherwise parallel phrases. OmegaWiki
IS A
rhetorical device
Rhetorical device
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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chiastic, Chiastic quotation

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