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| writing around someone I write every day. Sometimes fiction, more often commentary on political events and personalities, art and music, or literature. It's hard to nail me down to one thing, so this blog is where I put items that interest me that are connected, in general, with the Arts. |
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March 21, 2004
ChiasmusChiasmus: A rhetorical inversion of the second of two parallel structures, as in Each throat/Was parched, and glazed each eye (Samuel Taylor Coleridge). This rhetorical device is often used as the basis of riddles that rely on puns. Consider, for example these two attributed to Richard Lederer: What is the difference between a pursued deer and a midget witch? One is a hunted stag, the other a stunted hag. What is the difference between a jumping sorcerer and a crying reptile? One is a leaping wizard, the other a weeping lizard. |
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