| The chiasmus points to how the questions function as quasi-incantations rather than genuine queries needing answers. |
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| He or she may have heard of alliteration, onomatopoeia, metonymy, synecdoche, and chiasmus. |
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| An analysis of this speech reveals that the student used varied repetition strategies, including anaphora, antithesis, chiasmus, and parallelism. |
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| But doing so has never been as simple or as uncontested as his neatly balanced chiasmus implies. |
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| Finally, McLuhan employed the literary critic's categories of metaphor and chiasmus in his media analyses. |
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| Daniel chapter 12 displays a perfect chiasmus in which the first six elements of chapter 12 correspond with the last six in reverse order. |
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| According to this chiasmus, where does the prophetic period of the 1335 days lead? |
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| If we look closely at the structure of Daniel chapter 12, we will discover a perfect chiasmus which gives us a most vital information. |
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| Ovid's chiasmus is a rhetorical picture of the lovers being pulled apart. |
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| One such description occurs in the opening lines of the poem as Milton joins two rhetorical devices, chiasmus and paradox, to declare his subject. |
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| Ask not what you can do for chiasmus, then: ask what chiasmus can do for you. |
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| And the paired lines look attractive on the page because of the chiasmus, more easily seen than heard: it adds a playful touch. |
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| Inversion, circumlocution, alliteration, assonance, chiasmus, paradox: there's nothing he doesn't go in for. |
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| Now we can better understand why the 1335 days correspond, according to the chiasmus of Daniel 12, with «a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time. |
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| Now on to the more, um, normal examples of spoonerisms, transpositions, and chiasmus. |
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