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CHIASMUS
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Irregular inflected form: chiasmi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("chiasmus" is a kind of...):
rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))
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