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).
The US Congress is a flock of reincarnated Dodo birds. Angry vengeful Dodo birds risen from the sand of Maritius! You roost! You nest! Squatting there, you preen and make your garbled Dodo sounds.
Oh reincarnated Dodos, we see through your retributive ruse!
Shoo! Shoo! Get moving, you dirty bloated birds!
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
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