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chiasmus.
chi·as·mus ( P ) Pronunciation Key (k-zms)
n. pl. chi·as·mi (-m)
A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in “Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye” (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).
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