Chiasmus


 * Chiasmus**

A type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first.

("A circle statement") KH ( Using one word two different ways to say the opposite of what the first statement meant) Sarah Some popular examples:

- "You forget what you want to remember, and you remember what you want to forget." (Cormac McCarthy, //The Road//, 2006)

-"I had a teacher I liked who used to say good fiction's job was to comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable."(David Foster Wallace)

- **"**I'd rather be looked over than overlooked." (//Mae West)//

//-// "Quitters never win and winners never quit."

-"The mind forms creativity, while creativity forms the mind." (KH)

"Do I love you because you're beautiful or are you beautiful because I love you?" (TM)

Chiasmus Chiasmus

(BW)