210419 What I learned in my studies this morning
New lamp to read by
Shining forth on old wisdom.
Lightning in bottles.
From The Daily Stoic:
Today's Meditation:
A Calendar of Wisdom by Leo Tolstoy
Wisdom and knowledge are everywhere if we know how to look.
From Ward Farnsworth, Classical English Rhetoric, Chapter 2. Structural Matters:
8. Reversal of Structure: CHIASMUS
Chiasmus: repeating words or other elements in reverse order, resulting in an ABBA pattern.
Antimetabole: reversing words (as opposed to purely structural reversals)
Patterns and Examples
— Describing a reversal of action
— Showing relationships between sets
— Use by Chesterton
— As a play on words
— As emphasis
— Structural chiasmus
— Phonetic chiasmus
— Paired with repetition of words
— With isocolon
Conclusion
Uses with care, chiasmus offers the rhetorician a way to — surprise! — emphasize a point, draw a comparison, or demonstrate a contrast. More than other patterns discussed so far, chiasmus is likely to be consciously noticed by the audience and, therefore, appear forced or overly clever. (Though structural chiasmus is less prone to this discovery than repetition of words and phrases.)
(pp. 113-132)
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