Chiasmus
Chiasmus is a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism. It is a rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each another through a reversal of terms in order to make a larger point. In Latin in particular, it was used to articulate balance or order within the text in which it was included.
External links and references
- A website dedicated to the subject from the author of Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You: Chiasmus and a World of Quotations That Say What They Mean and Mean What They Say (ISBN 0670878278)
- Political Speech Wordplay at the RNC from NPR's Day to Day
- Inauguration Speech Do's and Don'ts, Slate-published email exchange between presidential speechwriters Peter Robinson and Michael Waldman
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