How to pronounce chiasmus
American English pronunciation
ky-AZ-mus
- IPA
- /kaɪˈæzməs/
- Syllables
- ky · AZ · mus (3 syllables, stress on the 2nd)
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What chiasmus means
A saying whose second half flips the order of the first
In a sentence: "Eat to live, don't live to eat" is a chiasmus because the words swap places.
Where it comes from: It comes from Greek, from the name of the letter chi, which is shaped like an X.
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