chiasmic

Examples

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• The chiasmic structure of the poem emphasizes contrasting ideas, enhancing its overall meaning.

• The artist's painting displayed a chiasmic relationship between light and shadow, creating a striking visual effect.

• But the central theme of this play of chiasmic formulations ought to be clear.

  Academic text (2001)

• In Heidegger's chiasmic formulation, "the artist is the origin of the work."

  Academic text (2003)

• For the extraordinary proliferation of chiasmic expressions in the play does more than compel our attention to these irresolvable problems in Measure for Measure.

  Academic text (2001)

• Just so, in Measure for Measure, judgment appears in powerful chiasmic formulations that lay bare for analysis the commensurability of proposed substitutions or exchanges.

  Academic text (2001)

• Duke Vincentio's final remarks to Isabella create yet one more problem in yet one more of the chiasmic formulations of problems prevalent throughout Measure for Measure.

  Academic text (2001)

• In the first of these chiasmic expressions, Isabella characterizes Angelo's oath affirming his vicious proposal.

  Academic text (2001)

• To conclude, I shall suggest that the chiasmic formulation of those relationships in Measure for Measure means that our attempts to resolve them, which have proved to be unsatisfying, must necessarily remain unsatisfied.

  Academic text (2001)

• But it is for theme or characterization that auditors puzzle out Hamlet's bitter pair of chiasmic explanations to Ophelia.

  Academic text (2001)

Synonyms

C

chiasmatic

vschiasmic

• Specialized

9.9

Relating to the crossing of nerve fibers, especially where the optic nerves cross

is broader, applying to crossings in anatomy and rhetoric rather than only nerve fibers

C

chiasmal

vschiasmic

• Specialized

9.9

Relating to the point where the two optic nerves cross behind the eyes

is broader, used for crossings in anatomy and rhetoric not limited to vision

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