English Dictionary

chiasmus

IPA（発音記号）

/kaɪˈæzməs/

名詞

可算名詞 修辞法 不可算名詞

(rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.

日本語の意味

修辞学において、語句や節の要素が逆転することで、対比や強調効果を生み出す表現技法。

The professor illustrated the concept of chiasmus by flipping the sentence structure to highlight the mirrored ideas.

教授は語句の要素間の関係を逆転させる修辞法を例示するために、文の構造を入れ替えて対照的な考えを強調した。

意味（1）

(rhetoric) An inversion of the relationship between the elements of phrases.

The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chiastic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […]

chiasmi （ plural ）

chiasmuses （ plural ）