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Chiasmus

Chiasmus

In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm, is the reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses without repetition of words.

A similar device, antimetabole, also involves a reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses in an A-B-B-A configuration, but unlike chiasmus, presents a repetition of words.