Figures of Speech – Chiasmus
What is chiasmus?
Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form. In other words, the clauses display inverted parallelism.
Examples:
These are examples of chiasmus:
- He knowingly led and we followed blindly
- Swift as an arrow flying, fleeing like a hare afraid
- ‘Bad men live that they may eat and drink,
whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.’
Socrates (fifth century B.C.)- The heart of a fool is in his mouth, the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.
List of Figures of Speech in the English Language – Literary Devices |
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| Accumulation | Climax | Metalepsis |
| Adjunction | Dysphemism | Metaphor |
| Adnomination | Ellipsis | Metonymy |
| Alliteration | Euphemism | Simile |
| Allusion | Epigram | Synecdoche |
| Anaphora | Epiphora (or epistrophe) | Tautology |
| Antanaclasis | Hyperbole | Understatement |
| Anticlimax | Hypophora | Zeugma and syllepsis |
| Antiphrasis | Irony | |
| Antithesis | Litotes | |
| Apostrophe | Oxymoron | |
| Assonance | Personification | |
| Cataphora | Puns | |
| Chiasmus | Merism | |
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