Repetition of any group of verse elements (including rhyme and grammatical structure) in reverse order, such as the rhyme scheme ABBA. Examples can be found in Biblical scripture (“But many that are f [..]

in grammar, inversion of word order, 1871, Latinized from Greek khiasmos "a placing crosswise, diagonal arrangement" (see chi). Adam, first of men, To first of women, Eve. ["Paradise Lo [..]

figure of speech in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; the two clauses display inverted parallelism. The elements of a simple chiasmus are often labeled in the form A B B A, where the letters correspond to grammar, words, or meaning. In modern day, chiasmus

Chiasmus is a figure of speech in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures to make a larger point, though the reversal does not have to feature the same words as in [..]

A rhetorical figure in which elements are presented in the order ABBA. It's named for the Greek letter chi (which looks like an "X"). The "X" suggests the crossing that charac [..]

two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a); from shape of the Greek letter chi (X). *Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers always. MacArthur *Renown'd for conquest, and in council skill'd. Addison et pacis ornamenta et subsidia belli. Cicero, Pro lege Manilia [..]

A rhetorical figure with two syntactically parallel constructions, one of which has the word order reversed. For example Alexander Pope’s “They fall successive, and successive rise.”

A crossing parallelism, where the second part of a grammatical construction is balanced or paralleled by the first part, only in reverse order. Instead of an A,B structure (e.g., "learned unwillingly") paralleled by another A,B structure ("forgotten gladly"), the A,B will be followed by B,A ("gladly forg [..]

(n) inversion in the second of two parallel phrases

corresponding pairs not matched in parallel but inverted or crossed (a-b-b-a, rather than a-b-a-b). The word derives from the Greek letter chi (X). "Those gallant men will remain often in my t [..]

(rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases. * '''1934''', H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund "The Literary Structure of the Book of Habakkuk", ''Journal of Biblical Literatu [..]

chiasmus

Chiasmus is a specific type of parallelism. It consists of two parallel phrases in which corresponding words or phrases are placed in the opposite order. That's a mouthful, right? Why don't [..]