Chiasmus (idea) by alvin - Everything2.com

Chiasmus is a mechanic often used in joke punchlines. For instance:

Q: What's the difference between a teacher and a conductor?
A: One teaches you to train the mind, the other to mind the train.

Antimetabole	Chiasma	Ode on a Grecian Urn	Chiasm
stylistic methods	rhetorical terms	I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy	Kiss
tricolon crescens	prefrontal lobotomy	Ouroboros	Parallelism
Metonymy	web weaving	Chiastic Slide	Phthisis
John Keats	Mystery Men	Turpentine or Pinesol?	Non ut edam vivo, sed ut vivam edo
Gendered Language in Pound and Joyce	Reason and Rhetoric in Milton's The Tenure of Kings and The Ready and Easy Way	They Hunger For Nodes: An e2 Halloween Scary Story Quest

Chiasmus (idea)

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