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| chi·as·mus [ kī ázməss ] (plural chi·as·mi [ kī áz m ]) |
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inverted word order in phrase: a rhetorical construction in which the order of the words in the second of two paired phrases is the reverse of the order in the first. An example is "gray was the morn, all things were gray."
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| [Mid-17th century. Via modern Latin< Greek khiasmos< khiazein (see chiasma)] |
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