What is Chiasmus
The sentences, statements are reversed order repeated to produce dramatic or artistic effectHere are few examples in the form of funny jokes that has used chiasmus rhetorical device:
Examples
- A fine is a tax for doing wrong. A tax is a fine for doing well
- College: A place where some pursue learning and others learn pursuing.
- Some people love to go to movies and some people go to the movies to love.
- Our brain is a masterpiece, its divided into two parts left and right. In left nothing is right and in right nothing is left.
- Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things
See Also
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Procatalepsis Figure of Speech Examples: You may ask, You may think...
Funny Pun Figure of Speech Examples: Patient: "Doctor, doctor my sister thinks she is a lift!"
Doctor: "Well, tell her come in". Patient: "I can not, she does not stop at this floor!"