单词 | chiasmus |
释义 | chi·as·mus ![]() n. pl. chi·as·mi (-mī′) A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in "Each throat / Was parched, and glazed each eye" (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). [New Latin chīasmus, from Greek khīasmos, syntactic inversion, from khīazein, to invert or mark with an X; see CHIASMA.] |
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