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	Chiasmus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chiasmus is a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism.
		Today, chiasmus is applied fairly broadly to any "criss-cross" structure, although in classical rhetoric, it would have been distinguished from other similar devices, especially antimetabole.
		Chiasmus is not limited to an exchange of words; it can also involve the exchange of letters or syllables, as in "I’d Rather Have A Bottle In Front Of Me (Than A Frontal Lobotomy)," or the flipping of syntactical structures, as in "I love too much and too little hate."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chiasmus (718 words)

	Encyclopedia: Chiasmus
		It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases.
		Chiasmus, derived from the X-shaped Greek letter khi (χ), is a rhetorical figure in which two objects are related to one another in a "crossing" structure.
		Moreover, chiasmus allows Alma to place the very turning point of his entire life exactly at the turning point of this chapter: Christ, because of the effects of the future atonement, belongs at the center of both.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Chiasmus (442 words)

	Introduction To Chiasmus -=- InTheBeginning.org
		In fact, theological studies which have used chiasmus for purposes of exegesis are rare.
		In recent years, though, Gaechter in his commentary on Matthew, Bailey in his work on the Lucan parables, and Miesner in his study on the missionary journeys narratives in Acts have all pioneered in giving attention to chiasm in the interpretation of their respective texts.
		Chiasmus is significant and demonstrates the subtle narrator's skill, which is interwoven beneath the surface of the text.
	www.inthebeginning.org /chiasmus/introduction/chiasmus_intro.htm (1277 words)

	Chiasmus.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Chiasmus is the ABBA form of inversion, and may occur, depending on which source you rely on, at the level of the sentence, the passage, or the work.
		The example in some dictionaries of "he went to the country and to the town went she" is chiasmus because it follows the ABBA form, not in its choice of words but in its structural elements.
		Finally, who but Doctor Johnson would provide a chiasmus useful for both meditation on the figure and for figurations of scholarship itself: Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
	www.uncwil.edu /com/rohler/chiasmus.htm (410 words)

	Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Chiasmus is a form of parallelism used as a poetical structure in some ancient writings from the Middle East and Greece [note 1].
		Chiasmus was a common form of presenting ideas among those with literary skills in the ancient world and was used to create powerful poetry.
		In fact, chiasmus was not searched for and discovered in the Book of Mormon until the late 1960s, when LDS scholar John Welch learned of scholarly work on chiasmus in antiquity and hypothesized that the Book of Mormon might contain examples as well [note 4].
	www.jefflindsay.com /chiasmus.shtml (5701 words)

	Chiasmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Just as 16th century English poets were fond of the sonnet, chiasmus seems to have been preferred by many of the ancient Hebrew writers.
		Although the form was recognized and published as early as 1820 in London, it was not until 1854 in a study by John Forbes (The Symmetrical Structures of Scripture) that a full appreciation or understanding of chiasmus was developed.
		He had been studying chiasmus in Homer and other ancient books and reasoned that it should be expected in the Book of Mormon.
	www.lightplanet.com /response/chiasmus.htm (1559 words)

	What is Chiasmus
		Chiasmus can also be achieved by reversing complete phrases, individual letters of words, sounds of words, and occasionally even numbers.
		Let me bring this discussion of chiasmus to an end by briefly describing a few other literary terms--often called "figures of repetition" by scholars--that are related to chiasmus.
		You've learned that chiasmus is not only a fascinating figure of speech and rhetorical device, but also a marvelous method for communicating some of life's great truths.
	www.chiasmus.com /whatischiasmus.shtml (3198 words)

	issue two wiseman
		Rather, I will be concerned with chiasmus as a pattern of thought, an organising schema, a structure that determines, from behind the scenes, the form and content of a number of Lévi-Strauss's anthropological theories.
		Chiasmus consists in 'the appearance of a two-part structure or system in which the second half is a mirror image of the first, i.e.
		My main point is that the figure of chiasmus -- or at least a logical structure analogous to it -- is a distinctive feature of Lévi-Strauss's works, a stylistic particularity of his way of thinking and constructing arguments.
	www.selc.ed.ac.uk /arachnofiles/pages/two_wiseman.htm (7450 words)

	Mormanity: New Statistical Study of Chiasmus: Chance or Design?
		The authors find that some often-cited examples of chiasmus in the Book of Abraham and the Doctrine and Covenants are likely to be due to chance, but several well-known examples of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon appear to be intentional with a high level of confidence.
		Here a post on chiasmus from ARM [alt.religion.mormon] is replicated that demonstrates that the examples of chiasmus cited by Mormon apologists sich [sic] as Jeff Lindsay (e.g.
		The examples of chiasmus found in the Book of Mormon are compelling indications that the authors of the text had a Semitic background and rules out the book as a product of a 19th century environment.
	mormanity.blogspot.com /2004/09/new-statistical-study-of-chiasmus.html (1474 words)

	Chiasmus for Windows 1.6
		Chiasmus™ for Windows is an encryption program for Windows PCs (Windows 95, 98, 2000, ME, NT 3.5.2 and higher, XP).
		With Chiasmus for Windows it is possible to encrypt individual files or entire folders.
		Chiasmus for Windows may only be used where its use is in the public interest.
	www.bsi.de /fachthem/chiasmus/indexeng.htm (990 words)

	Chiasmus In The New Testament by Lund -=- InTheBeginning.org
		Chiasmus in the New Testament: A study in the Form and Function of Chiastic Structures
		The late author, a pastor and educator in the Covenant Church, was former Dean of North Park Theological Seminary, where he served on the faculty from 1922 till his death.
		One of the classic studies in form criticism that acknowledged the debt owed to Jewish patterns of speech and thought, Nils Lund's Chiasmus in the New Testament has had an impact upon the scholarly study of Scripture extending far beyond its original 1942 appearance.
	www.inthebeginning.org /chiasmus/xfiles/lund/lundbook.htm (275 words)

	Chiasmus on the Brass Plates - Mormon scriptures
		Chiasmus was first recognized by a handful of scholars in 1820, but not well-known until 1942.
		In 1967 chiasmus was discovered in the Book of Mormon, and the findings were published in BYU Studies.
		Here is beginner’s example of chiasmus from the Book of the Law of the Lord, chapter 39, section 1, which shows good rhythm.
	www.strangite.org /Chiasmus.htm (694 words)

	Chiasmus and the Poetic Pagination ~ Authentic Boredom
		Though at first it sounds complicated, a chiasmus (pronounced ky-as-mus) is relatively easy to understand and almost as easy to execute.
		Apparent by now is the fact that a chiasmus is 1) well-structured and 2) layered with repeated ideas “pointing” to a central theme.
		If a chiasmus forces one to organize thoughts and ideas in an artistic format, it seems the logic of such can be applied the pagination structure of a product brochure.
	www.cameronmoll.com /archives/000148.html (3422 words)

	Amazon.ca: Never Let A Fool Kiss You Or A Kiss Fool You: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		They all indulged in chiasmus-a literary device in which word order is reversed to hilarious or poignant effect.
		When Mae West said, "It's not the men in my life, it's the life in my men," she was using chiasmus; when John F. Kennedy said, "Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country," he was doing the same.
		Chiasmus seems to imply in its mathematical similarity that it is a capable vehicle for absolute truths.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0142000574/isbnnu-20 (1243 words)

	Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Most instances of chiasmus in the Bible have been obscured by the translation process (the word order generally required by these structures is just not good English).
		John Welch, who has literally written the book on Chiasmus, calls Alma's use of this literary form in Alma 36 "a masterpiece of composition, as good as any other use of chiasmus in world literature." Throughout the Book of Alma, Mormon's quotations from Alma teachings are accentuated by chiastic phrases.
		Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon is particularly impressive when we realize that, with some minor exceptions, the chiasmus in the Old and New Testaments have not survived translation.
	www.cometozarahemla.org /chiasmus/chiasmus.html (5538 words)

	BenLatin
		Chiasmus is the sister of synchesis, instead of deliberately confused word order, two linked words are place in between two other linked words.
		Above, the A words are verbal-adjectives (heavy, raging), while the B words are the ablatives of instrument (with power, with war).
		Technically speaking, imperiis and bello have nothing to do with each other, apart from being in parallel constructions, and yet this is still a good example of chiasmus.
	www.ha.sad22.us /BenJohnson/vergilstructure.html (611 words)

	Antonioni's Blow Up And The Chiasmus Of Memory
		It is this chiasmus between our embodied relationship and the camera’s hermeneutic relationship to the world that lays down the different possibilities of memory that will ultimately influence our ontological relationship to Blow-Up as a whole.
		This intersection of viewing and viewed views within the all-encompassing field of the apparatus is a profound one, because it reiterates the visible/invisible chiasmus that we have already discussed.
		Yet the chiasmus of memories recorded from the original park sequence is not overcome via this mechanical perceiving apparatus, but merely reiterated on a more hermetic hermeneutic level.
	www.artbrain.org /journal2/gardner.html (7862 words)

	Chiasmus
		All our sources agree that while antimetabole is an inversion of repeated words in successive clauses, chiasmus is an inversion of parallel grammatical structures only.
		Nevertheless, in critical practice it has become so common to use chiasmus for both types that many expert critics will understand you when you say chiasmus and not have the faintest idea what antimetabole is. The easiest way to understand it is to think of antimetabole as a special sub-class of chiasmus.
		Chiasmus is also related to a tactic featured under arrangement known as the inclusio or envelope pattern, whereby a text exhibits repetitive structures moving outward from a central point, often notated
	www.wfu.edu /~zulick/454/figures/chiasmus.html (257 words)

	Chiasmus and the Book of Mormon
		Shipp was not trying to disprove chiasmus claims in the Book of Mormon, his study shows that Joseph Smith had picked up both the rhythm of chiasmus and parallelism.
		Indeed, the presence of chiasmus in the Book of Mormon may be evidence of Joseph Smith's own literary style and genius.
		Since chiasmus occurs in many languages its use in the Book of Mormon does not prove either its Semitic origin or that it is a style peculiar to inspired ancient scripture.
	www.utlm.org /onlineresources/chiasmusandthebom.htm (1121 words)

	Lynch, Literary Terms — Chiasmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		We can see the chiasmus in the last example (with "country" and "you") if we lay it out this way (in clumsy ASCII art, but I'm too lazy to work up a graphic):
		Chiasmus doesn't have to be the same words: it's often the same parts of speech in ABBA order.
		Whoever sheds the blood of man, by man shall his blood be shed.
	andromeda.rutgers.edu /~jlynch/Terms/chiasmus.html (244 words)

	Publius Enigma: the chiasmus theory
		And the palindromic structure is related to the chiasmus.
		According to the chiasmus theory, all songs are connected to another one.
		The result of connecting the songs according to the chiasmus theory is a cross.
	folk.uio.no /ericsp/an_chiasmus.htm (3667 words)

	Language, Chiasmus and Communication \| Webtorque (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		It's been a while since I had a foray in the genre that I call "half-formed ideas," but here's a good one that I've been brewing for a while.
		For no good reason I can recall, I was reading this essay about spontaneous use of chiasmus in contemporary English and it got me thinking.
		Not so much about chiasmus, which is of course fascinating in its own right, but about language and communication in general.
	www.webtorque.org /node/view/106 (258 words)

	NEVER LET A KISS FOOL YOU, OR A FOOL KISS YOU \| MetaFilter (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		In types of chiasmus the chiasmus.com author refers to many examples of spoonerism as "implied chiasmus", which I would interpret as "not chiasmus".
		I learned the word chiasmus from the introduction to my highschool copy of Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. The whole novel's written as a chiasmus, with the reflection occuring as the preacher looks down at his watch, in the middle of the middle chapter--the one that's a long sermon.
		Political speech is one of the last holdouts of true rhetoric in contemporary society, and it has always made use of chiasmus and other nifty syntactical structures, viz.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/22947 (2167 words)

	Mormanity: Further Resources on Chiasmus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		The FARMS Multimedia Page provides video and sound recordings of John Welch's lecture, "Chiasmus in the Book of Mormon" - a masterful 54-minute lesson that could be a valuable resource for a class or any serious student of the Book of Mormon.
		Another helpful resource is John Welch, "Criteria for Identifying and Evaluating the Presence of Chiasmus," Journal of Book of Mormon Studies, Volume 4, Issue 2, 1995.
		I have updated my page on chiasmus in the Book of Mormon to include these resources.
	mormanity.blogspot.com /2004/06/further-resources-on-chiasmus.html (276 words)

	chiasmus
		The term is typically used to refer only to more elaborate forms, such as Frederick Douglass, "You have seen how a man became a slave; you shall see how a slave becomes a man."
		Chiasmus on the Brass Plates - Mormon scriptures
		Criteria for Identifying and Evaluating the Presence of Chiasmus - FARMS JBMS
	www.fact-library.com /chiasmus.html (164 words)

	Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History: Chiasmus in biblical narrative: rhetoric of characterization.@ ...
		Chiasmus is commonly explained as a means of focusing the reader's attention on the center of the unit, where the central idea or turning point is situated.
		The reader appreciates the skillfulness and the well-planned composition of chiasmus, which require determination of all components in advance, and word choice that is concordant with its context while resembling the parallel component of the chiasmus.
		Awareness of the reader's response led biblical authors to employ chiasmus to reflect the inner...
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:100878423&refid=holomed_1 (224 words)

	Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool You : Chiasmus and a World of Quotations That Say What They Mean and Mean What ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
		Chiasmus occurs when the order of words is reversed in parallel expressions.
		My goal is to bring chiasmus out of the closet of obscurity and move it into the world of popular parlance.
		A working knowledge of chiasmus can also add some special moments to your life, as you share your own chiastic creations--sometimes quite spontaneously--with others.
	www.any-book.com /never_let.htm (548 words)

	Chrysti the Wordsmith > Radio Scripts > Chiasmus II
		Radio Script > Chiasmus II Last time we began to explore the concept of chiasmus, a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases.
		Though the term chiasmus may sound strange to the ear, most people already know what the word represents.
		The information for today's Wordsmith edition was gleaned from a handbook on chiasmus by Dr. Mardy Grothe called never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
	wordsmithradio.org /scripts/chiasmusII.html (219 words)

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