Chiasmus: A rhetorical pattern in which the second half of an expression reverses the order of the first half (AB:BA).
How to apply it: Analyze how chiasmus creates balance, reversal, or paradox by mirroring and inverting a structure.
Course: AP English Literature · Unit: Poetry III
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