Chiasm vs. Chiasmus

Chiasmnoun

alternative form of chiasma

Chiasmusnoun

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

Chiasmnoun

alternative form of chiasmus

Chiasmusnoun

An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

‘If e'er to bless thy sonsMy voice or hands deny,These hands let useful skill forsake,This voice in silence die.’;

Chiasmnoun

A commissure; an intersection or crossing of two tracts; especially, the optic commissure, or crucial union of the optic nerves.

Chiasmusnoun

inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

Chiasmnoun

an intersection or crossing of two tracts in the form of the letter X

Chiasmusnoun

a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order.

Chiasmus

In rhetoric, chiasmus ( kahy-AZ-muhs) or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα, , from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, ), is a .A similar device, antimetabole, also involves a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses, but unlike chiasmus, presents a repetition of words in an A-B-B-A configuration.

‘crossing’; ‘to shape like the letter Χ’; ‘reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words’;