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Chiasmas is a figure of speech in which the figure consists in the inversion of the order of words or phrase or clauses when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence .(This is the device of inverting the order of words or phrases in a single sentence )


Example :

1."Beauty is truth ,truth beauty "

2."Fair is foul ,foul fair "

3.We eat to live ,and live to eat .

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