Chiasmus (ki-az’-mus): 1. Repetition of ideas in inverted order. 2. Repetition of grammatical structures in inverted order (not to be mistaken with antimetabole, in which identical words are repeated and inverted).
Another day, another fiasco. Screwing up every day!
At a press conference the other day, the President said (among other things), “I am the least anti-Semitic person that you’ve ever seen in your entire life.”
Is that something to be proud of?
There’s a huge difference between being the least X and not being X at all!
Am I missing something? Is there some aspect I’ve overlooked?
Did he ‘really’ mean by what he said that he is not anti-Semitic?
I don’t know.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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