Had this been said by Gucci Mane, I'd use it as further evidence of his learning disability. hey i learned the word chiasmus posted by. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
But they slipped the code-word "chiasmus" into their conversation so that I could identify them. From Wordnik.com. [SBL (Secret Bibliobloggers' League): A Top Secret Debriefing on the 2009 Annual Meeting in New Orleans] Reference
Heraclitus uses alliteration (four m-words in a row) and chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor, My Eyes] Reference
How symbolic chiasmus communicates the "sinister intensity" of the speaker?. From Wordnik.com. [More reasons to visit Bologna] Reference
But while chiasmus and ellipsis were familiar, many of his terms were new to me. From Wordnik.com. [The Syntax of Style] Reference
Curiously, in her message she inadvertently used the ancient literary form chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing: April 17, 2005 - April 23, 2005 Archives] Reference
The salutation forms a chiasmus of addresses and addressees: farewelllxxxxxxxnightingale. From Wordnik.com. ['Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806] Reference
Chesterton ' s love of chiasmus — the ABBA pattern in which repetition involves reversal. From Wordnik.com. [The Syntax of Style] Reference
Not as a call to battle, though embattled we are, that would be both chiasmus and plyptoton. From Wordnik.com. [Analyzing The Text Of Obama's Inaugural Address] Reference
There should be some kind of joke that can be produced out of the chiasmus of friend's babysitter and babysitter's friend. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
In fact, the chiasmus figuratively connects the bird and its crowd of listeners as one community, engaged in a type of nocturnal conversation. From Wordnik.com. ['Sweet Influences': Human/Animal Difference and Social Cohesion in Wordsworth and Coleridge, 1794-1806] Reference
Thelwall inverts the treason charges in a chiasmus: from "The State charges Thelwall with treason" to "Thelwall charges the State with treason.". From Wordnik.com. [The Discourse of Treason, Sedition, and Blasphemy in British Political Trials, 1794-1820] Reference
If we were to delve into the vertiginous levels of emptiness progressively proclaimed in this chiasmus, this essay would be many times its current length. From Wordnik.com. [Hegel on Buddhism] Reference
Help, I've fallen into a deep chiasmus and I can't get out!. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Campus] Reference
Note the chiasmus of v. 10: verb, object -- object verb (K.S. 339 o). From Wordnik.com. [Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1] Reference
He enjoys wordplay: puns, chiasmus, unexpected and creative repetition. From Wordnik.com. [Bookslut] Reference
You know the literary artifice called by the grammarians ‘chiasmus’. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
The inversion of reference in these lines is an illustration of the rhetorical figure 'chiasmus.'. From Wordnik.com. [Marmion] Reference
Toward the end of the song, Johnny Otis doubles the following aphoristic chiasmus with his guitar. From Wordnik.com. [Do Bianchi] Reference
Elsewhere I have written at some length about his use of the chiasmus, of which he was an accomplished master. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
Not even Farrar, in his Greek Syntax, or some greater man, knew more examples of chiasmus, asyndeton, or hendiadys. From Wordnik.com. [The Private Life of Henry Maitland]
My apologies. and instead correctly identifying "with my mind on my money and my money on my mind" as a use of chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter] Reference
The chiasmus, for instance, literally a ` placing crosswise, 'concerns a crossing word-order, as in noun-adjective, adjective noun. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
Here’s a look at a few, with subjects ranging as far afield as haiku and chiasmus, with links. From Wordnik.com. ["American Idol" -- the guys.] Reference
The choicest line, penned by John Kenneth Galbraith, may have been another chiasmus: "Let us never negotiate out of fear. From Wordnik.com. [When Inaugural Speeches Work] Reference
Watts’s hymns, and see this particular form of parallelism, combined with a chiasmus, in the second and third lines of the verse. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
In response to chiasmus @ 1. From Wordnik.com. [Comes As No Surprise We’re Destabilized | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
In response to chiasmus @ 2. From Wordnik.com. [Desperation | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Responses to “Floorpunch” chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [Floorpunch | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Responses to “Fallen From Grace” chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [Fallen From Grace | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
One Response to “I’ve Got Better Things To Do” chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [I’ve Got Better Things To Do | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Note the chiasmus there too. From Wordnik.com. [The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers] Reference
A chiasmus?. From Wordnik.com. ["I never see those things"] Reference
Reply chiasmus. From Wordnik.com. [Another Night, No Sanctuary | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Che asthma vs. chiasmus: discuss. From Wordnik.com. [jane dark's sugarhigh!] Reference
(A B B 'A'; antithetical chiasmus from the Declaration of Independence. From Wordnik.com. [Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]] Reference
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