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How to pronounce chiasmus

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Ava Richardson

Updated on June 09, 2026

What is an example of a chiasmus?

Chiasmus

is a figure of speech in which the grammar of one phrase is inverted in the following phrase, such that two key concepts from the original phrase reappear in the second phrase in inverted order. The sentence “She has all my love; my heart belongs to her,” is an example of chiasmus.

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What is the meaning of chiasmus?

Chiasmus

is the reversing of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases or sentences. This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism or syntactical inversion.

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