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Chiastic structure, or chiastic pattern, is a literary technique in narrative motifs and other textual passages. An example of chiastic structure would be two ideas, A and B, together with variants A' and B', being presented as A,B,B',A'. Chiastic structures that involve more components are sometimes called "ring structures" or "ring compositions".
In rhetoric, chiasmus (/ k aɪ ˈ æ z m ə s / ky-AZ-məs) or, less commonly, chiasm (Latin term from Greek χίασμα chiásma, "crossing", from the Greek χιάζω, chiázō, "to shape like the letter Χ"), is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words".
For example, in Somali, which is a Cushitic language, plural nouns usually take the opposite gender of their singular forms. Hebrew, a Semitic language, has a consistent polarity-of-gender agreement between nouns and simple numerals. The phenomenon is sometimes referred to as "chiastic concord" or "reverse agreement".
For example, Tibullus is burnt by the sun in 3.9, but by Love in 4.5; the ineffectiveness of poetry and song in winning over one's lover occurs in 3.12 and 4.13; money is obtained by fighting wars in 3.36–46 or through murder and crime in 4.21–26; Coan silk and Tyrian purple are mentioned in 3.53–58 and in 4.27–30; both poems end with ...
An example is the last section of 1.8 (lines 67–78), ... A similar chiastic construction has been noted in other poems of Tibullus, such as 2.5, ...
The poem follows a chiastic structure, beginning with a preamble, moving through to the mythical exemplum of the story of Paris and Helen, and returning to the subject of the preamble for the concluding stanza. [11] The poem begins with a priamel – a rhetorical structure where a list of alternatives are contrasted with a final, different idea ...
From Nicole Kidman’s erotic thriller “Babygirl,” to a book of sexual fantasies edited by Gillian Anderson, this was the year the female sex drive took the wheel in popular culture.
This higher perceived truthfulness is likely due to the memorable and coherent nature of chiastic structures. [ 7 ] In the study "A Reason to Rhyme: Phonological and Semantic Influences on Lexical Access," participants exposed to rhyming primes in a verbal sentence completion task responded faster than those exposed to non-rhyming primes.