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Zandar
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Netherlands1541 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-07 18:52:11
August 07 2012 18:50 GMT
#1
I saw someone post one from Dr Seuss in the Khaldor feedback thread:

On August 08 2012 03:26 zmansman17 wrote:
In the words of Dr. Seus, "Those who matter don't mind. And those who mind don't matter!"
^_^


That last sentence is a chiasmus,
"A grammatical figure by which the order of words in one of two of parallel clauses is inverted in the other."

I kind of love these, especially the longer ones

Wikipedia lists a few of them:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiasmus#Synonym_for_antimetabole
http://www.drmardy.com/chiasmus/definition.shtml

some examples:

- one for all, all for one
- it's nice to be important but more important to be nice
- quitters never win and winners never quit

some famous ones:
http://quotes-motivational-inspirational.blogspot.nl/

Was wondering if any of you know some cool ones not listed on wikipedia or easily found with google


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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
chiasmus
Profile Blog Joined January 2012
United States134 Posts
August 07 2012 20:42 GMT
#2
No good examples are coming to mind, but I felt obligated to comment on this, since I love chiasmus enough that I used it as my ID. It's also my battle.net ID, and I've had multiple people in-game tell me about their shared love of this grammatical structure.
AiurZ
Profile Blog Joined May 2004
United States429 Posts
August 07 2012 21:35 GMT
#3
gordon henry jrs the light people is a novel length chiasmus
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