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chiastic

American  
[kahy-as-tik] / kaɪˈæs tɪk /

adjective

Rhetoric.

  1. characterized by chiasmus.

Etymology

Origin of chiastic

1865–70; < Greek chiast ( ós ) diagonally arranged ( chiasma ) + -ic

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Neither was it a young, buoyantly hopeful Jack Kennedy, though many of the familiar chiastic constructions had been put into the address by Kennedy Speechwriter Ted Sorensen.

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