Dictionary definition: chiasmus

Article: Review: Fabulous flights of fancy; Folk Art and Fairy Tales mac's ...
The Birmingham Post (England);  November 20, 2007 ;     607 words ... ... columns on the examiner's clipboard. Lucy Casson and Julie Arkell's creatures are even quirkier, inhabiting their own parallel words of make-believe. Casson's enchanting tin sculptures are arguably the highlight of the show - and you can spend a good ...

Article: Zephaniah: A Commentary
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society;  December 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... verse-by-verse commentary follows with extensive comments on grammar, vocabulary, the versions' renderings, and parallel words and expressions elsewhere in the Hebrew Bible. The comments are detailed and exhaustive, exploring every angle and possibility ...

Article: Mind your language
The Spectator;  January 16, 1999 ;     580 words ... ... seafarers picked up an Iberian development of habitaculum, the word bitacula (Spanish) or bitacola (Portuguese). There are parallel words in Provenqal (abitacle) and French (habitacle). Among English sailors the version bittacle remained in use until the ...

Article: Lest We Forget
The Washington Post;  November 7, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... social calamity, photos examined and re-examined for what they seem to tell, an old woman's diary jottings set against parallel words of Eastern writers like Danilo Kis, Georgy Konrad, Joseph Brodsky and Peter Handke. Events in the novel seem guided by ...

Article: Tektronix Accelerates Time to Market for NVIDIA(R) GeForce(TM) 6 ...
PR Newswire;  September 7, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... integrity must be validated with a logic analyzer. With PCI Express, data is carried in serial symbols and packets instead of parallel words. The Tektronix TMS817 is used to deserialize, descramble, deskew and decode the PCI Express data stream into the proper ...

Article: Steampunk style; What would your computer look like if it were ...
The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario);  May 16, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... creating things and sharing a sense of wonder with the world. Steampunk can be really hard to define because it is placed in parallel words, in the past and in the future. As the movement gains momentum in North America, Everitt has noticed feathers getting ...

Article: Magazine as metaphor: the life of a magazine art director assumes ...
Folio: the Magazine for Magazine Management;  May 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Dada period (1916-23) in particular created radical new forms of design. Type suddenly left the constraints of the parallel; words and images were combined and deconstructed in new industrial and technical ways that created forms that would later be borrowed ...