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Word | Chiasmus |
Hindi Meaning | केइसमस, वाक्यांश-विपर्यय या परिवर्तन, व्यतिक्रम |
inversion in the second of two parallel phrases / An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence / a rhetorical or literary figure in which words, grammatical constructions, or concepts are repeated in reverse order, in the same or a modified form; e.g. ‘Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.’., | |
Usage | ⇒ One such description occurs in the opening lines of the poem as Milton joins two rhetorical devices, chiasmus and paradox, to declare his subject. |
Synonyms | malapropism, chiasm, figure of speech, hysteron proteron, metaphor, metastasis, palindrome, parenthesis, simile, speech, chiasma, rhetorical device, |
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