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"Chiasmus" Definition

noun

A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in "Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye” ( Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
An inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases (as in Goldsmith's ).

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