Noun

(en noun) {{examples-right, sense=repetition, examples= The white man sent you to Korea, you bled. He sent you to Germany, you bled. He sent you to the South Pacific to fight the Japanese, you bled. - }}

(rhetoric) The repetition of one word or words at the beginning and another word or words at the end of successive phrases or clauses.

(rhetoric) A combination of epanaphora and antistrophe.

Noun

(chiasmi)

(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.

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

* 1984', Ethel Grodzins Romm, "Persuasive Writing", ''American Bar Association Journal'' ' 70 : 158.

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."

* 2002 , Simon R. Slings, "Figures of Speech in Aristophanes", in'' Andreas Willi (editor), ''The Language of Greek Comedy , pages 103-104

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.

* 2009 , Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, R?m?'s Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnaw?, Book One , page 46

The realization that Mawl?n? was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise.