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| Översättning | Kontext |
|---|
| Substantiv |
| 1. | kiasm {en} | retorik |
Definitioner
Substantiv
- (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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