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| Title: | The Joy of Lex |
| Notice: | A Notes File even your grammar could love |
| Moderator: | THEBAY::SYSTEM |
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| Created: | Fri Feb 28 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1192 |
| Total number of notes: | 42769 |
In 356. Max gave some palindromes and asked what a CHIASMUS was.
According to _Figures of Speech_ by A. Quinn it is " after the Greek
name for the letter X (a palindrome of a single letter). It is a
large _epanados_. It is commonly found in the bible"
Epanados is defined as "a palindrome at the word level in a sentence."
Example of _epanados_
Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Example of _chiasmus_
And the Lord said unto Moses, The man shall be surely put to death;
all the congregation shall stone him with stones without the camp.
And all the congregation brought him without the camp, an stoned
him with stones, and he died; as the Lord commanded Moses.
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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 359.1 | THANKS | 49257::FINANCE | | Fri May 15 1987 12:08 | 5 |
| MLNOIS::HARBIG
Re .0 Many thanks and I don't feel
quite so bad about not having known
after reading your excellent explanation.
Max
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