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| 1 | arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of x y y x. it is often short and summarizes a main idea. | 17 sets | |
| 2 | inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | 14 sets | |
| 3 | a term from classical rhetoric that describes a situation in which you introduce subjects in the order a b and c and then talk about them in the order c b and a. | 10 sets | |
| 4 | an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases | 8 sets | |
| 5 | two corresponding pairs arranged not in parallels (a-b-a-b) but in inverted order (a-b-b-a) | 7 sets | |
| 6 | a figure of speech that reverses the order of words in phrases that would otherwise be structured the same. (e.g. heaven is too great of humanity; humanity is too great for heaven) | 7 sets | |
| 7 | an inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | 7 sets | |
| 8 | a statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed | 6 sets | |
| 9 | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, inversion in the second of two parallel phrases | 5 sets | |
| 10 | reversal of grammatical structures in successive clauses | 5 sets | |
| 11 | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases | 5 sets | |
| 12 | a figure of speech based on inverted parallelism. it is a rhetorical figure in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of terms. | 4 sets | |
| 13 | a type of rhetoric in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first | 4 sets | |
| 14 | reverse in syntax, but words are different. ex. to eat is boring, to sleep is fulfilling. | 4 sets | |
| 15 | a term from classical rhetoric that describes a situation in which you introduce subjects in the order a, b, and c, and then talk about them in the order c, b, and a. | 4 sets | |
| 16 | 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). | 3 sets | |
| 17 | "many i have defended, i have injured no one." | 3 sets | |
| 18 | contrast by parallelism in reverse order | 3 sets | |
| 19 | a reversal in the order of words in two otherwise parallel phrases, as in "he went to the country, to the town went she." | 3 sets | |
| 20 | an arrangement which places words in opposing order of related phrases. | 3 sets | |
| 21 | reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses | 3 sets | |
| 22 | two parallel phrases or clauses in which the word order is reversed in the second phrase | 3 sets | |
| 23 | derived from the greek letter chi (x); grammatical structure of the first clause or phrase is reversed in the second, sometimes repeating the same words | 3 sets | |
| 24 | second and first parts balance against each other with second part reversed | 2 sets | |
| 25 | figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second. (eg "fair is foul, and foul is fair.") | 2 sets | |
| 26 | a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. eg. "pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure" --byron | 2 sets | |
| 27 | a clever reversal of words | 2 sets | |
| 28 | arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of x y y x. | 2 sets | |
| 29 | figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of parallel clauses is reversed in the second | 2 sets | |
| 30 | the repetition of word, in successive clauses, in reverse grammatical order. | 2 sets | |
| 31 | reverse parallelism; an ab structure is followed by a ba structure, (ex: "what is learned unwillingly will be forgotten gladly." is turned into "what is learned unwillingly will be gladly forgotten.") | 2 sets | |
| 32 | a figure of speech by which the order of the terms in the first of two parallel clauses is reversed in the second. this may involve a repetition of the same words. | 2 sets | |
| 33 | a type or balance in which the second part os balanced against the first but with parts reversed. ex. "he did, did he?" "out went the taper as she hurried in" | 2 sets | |
| 34 | he labors without complaining and without bragging rests. | 2 sets | |
| 35 | a type of balance in which the second part is balanced against the first but with parts reversed | 2 sets | |
| 36 | überkreuzstellung von satzteilen in zwei sätzen/versen | 2 sets | |
| 37 | a verbal pattern in which the second half of an expression is balanced against the first but with the parts reversed. | 2 sets | |
| 38 | arrangement of repeated thoughts in the pattern of x y y x. chiasmus is often short and summarizes a main idea | 2 sets | |
| 39 | "die kunst ist lang und kurz ist unser leben." (goethe) | 2 sets | |
| 40 | abba syntactical structure rather than the more common parallel abab structure; minor syntactical device (ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.) | 2 sets | |