Anastrophe vs Chiasmus - What's the difference?
anastrophe | chiasmus |
(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
(rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.
* 1934', H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund "The Literary Sturcture of the Book of Habakkuk", ''Journal of Biblical Literature'' ' 53 (4): 355.
* 1984', Ethel Grodzins Romm, "Persuasive Writing", ''American Bar Association Journal'' ' 70 : 158.
* 2002 , Simon R. Slings, "Figures of Speech in Aristophanes", in'' Andreas Willi (editor), ''The Language of Greek Comedy , pages 103-104
* 2009 , Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, R?m?'s Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnaw?, Book One , page 46
As nouns the difference between anastrophe and chiasmus
is that anastrophe is (rhetoric) unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence while chiasmus is chiasmus.anastrophe
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(en noun)See also
* ("anastrophe" on Wikipedia)chiasmus
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(wikipedia chiasmus)Noun
(chiasmi)- 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 Mawl?n? was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.