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Uttal

  • UttalUS
  • Okänd accent:
    • IPA: /kaɪˈæːzməs/
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Substantiv
1.kiasm {en}retorik

Definitioner

Substantiv

  1. (rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.

Exempel

  • The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms[...]
  • John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies: "Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country."
  • Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural.
  • The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.
  • The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chaistic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […]

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