Antistasis vs Chiasmus - What's the difference?
antistasis | chiasmus |
(rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
(rhetoric) Antanaclasis.
(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 antistasis and chiasmus
is that antistasis is (rhetoric) the repetition of a word in an opposing sense while chiasmus is chiasmus.antistasis
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* (repetition in an opposing sense) antanaclasisReferences
*antistatis - definition and examples of antistasis*
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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.
