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Chiasmus

One concept. Four tiers of command. Which do you speak?

Category: Communication

• Foundational Lexiconreversed pattern
• Executive Parlanceinverted parallelism
• Scholarly Discourserhetorical inversion
• Babel ZenithChiasmus

  Origin: Greek/Rhetoric

  Pronunciation: /kaɪˈæzməs/

Etymology & Meaning

A rhetorical pattern where the second half reverses the first.

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