CHIASMUS
- a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in “He went to the country, to the town went she.”
- contrast by parallelism in reverse order [n CHIASMI]
- a reversal of word order between parallel phrases [n CHIASMI] : CHIASTIC [adj]
- an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's to stop too fearful, and too faint to go)
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