Associations to the word «Chiasmus»

Wiktionary

CHIASMUS, noun. (rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.

Dictionary definition

CHIASMUS, noun. Inversion in the second of two parallel phrases.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats