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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".
A story structure, narrative structure, or dramatic structure (also known as a dramaturgical structure) is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of narrative structures worldwide, which have been hypothesized by critics, writers, and scholars over time.
The structure represents a chiastic organization commonly found in the Quran. A chiastic structure, or ring composition, arranges themes or ideas in a mirrored ...
Research on the "chiastic structure," a type of linguistic structure that rearranges phrasing in an aesthetically pleasing way, demonstrates its effectiveness in increasing the perceived accuracy of statements. This higher perceived truthfulness is likely due to the memorable and coherent nature of chiastic structures. [7]
The structure of poem 4 as a whole is chiastic (the poet's reaction to the dream, the dream itself, the poet's reaction to the dream). [39] Within the dream section lines 63–76 form a chiastic structure of their own, with the myth of Apollo and Admetus at the centre.
In rhetoric, both chiastic structure (a literary device) and the figure of speech Chiasmus derive from their names from the shape of the letter Chi. In mechanical engineering, chi is used as a symbol for the reduction factor of relevant buckling loads in the EN 1993, a European Standard for the design of steel structures.
ABACABA is a "quickly growing word", often described as chiastic or "symmetrically organized around a central axis" (see: Chiastic structure and Χ). [4] The number of members in each iteration is a(n) = 2 n − 1, the Mersenne numbers (OEIS: A000225).