chiasmus
: Chiasmus
Anglais modifier
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- Du latin chiasmus.
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chiasmi \Prononciation ?\ |
chiasmus
- (Rhétorique) Chiasme.
- The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chaistic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […] — (H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund "The Literary Sturcture of the Book of Habakkuk", Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (4): 355, 1934)
- John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:
"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country." — (Ethel Grodzins Romm, "Persuasive Writing", American Bar Association Journal 70: 158, 1984) - Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural. — (Simon R. Slings, "Figures of Speech in Aristophanes", in Andreas Willi (editor), The Language of Greek Comedy, pages 103-104, 2002)
- The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise. — (Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawī, Book One, page 46, 2009)
Dérivés modifier
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Prononciation modifier
- États-Unis : écouter « chiasmus [kaɪˈæːzməs] »
Voir aussi modifier
- chiasmus sur l’encyclopédie Wikipédia (en anglais)
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- Cette page utilise des informations de l’article du Wiktionnaire en anglais, sous licence CC BY-SA 4.0 : chiasmus. (liste des auteurs et autrices)
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| Cas | Singulier | Pluriel |
|---|---|---|
| Nominatif | chiasmus | chiasmī |
| Vocatif | chiasme | chiasmī |
| Accusatif | chiasmum | chiasmōs |
| Génitif | chiasmī | chiasmōrum |
| Datif | chiasmō | chiasmīs |
| Ablatif | chiasmō | chiasmīs |
chiasmus \Prononciation ?\ masculin
- Forme en X.
- Exemple d’utilisation manquant. (Ajouter)
Dérivés dans d’autres langues modifier
Références modifier
- « chiasmus », dans Félix Gaffiot, Dictionnaire latin français, Hachette, 1934 → consulter cet ouvrage