Chiasmus |Chiasmus Definition |Chiasmus Figure of Speech |Chiasmus Example

Chiasmus |Chiasmus Definition |Chiasmus Figure of Speech |Chiasmus Example

Chiasmus |Chiasmus Definition |Chiasmus Figure of Speech

The inversion in the order of words or phrases when repeated.

Chiasmus Example|Examples of Chiasmus

◆"Beauty is truth,truth beauty,"

...........(Keats:Ode on a Grecian Urn")

◆"Fair is foul,and foul is fair,"

...............(Shakespeare:Macbeth)

◆"The fool doth think he is wise,but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
.........(Shakespeare:As You Like It,Act V,Scene I)

◆"Bettet a witty fool than a foolish wit".
...........(Shakespeare:Twelfth Night,Act I,Scene V)

◆"Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind."

(J.F. Kennedy :Speech to UN General Assembly)

Chiasmus is used to make the meaning more impressive by witty effect.