"chiasmus" meaning in Anglais

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      "parents": [],
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      "kind": "other",
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      "name": "Ch prononcés /k/ en anglais",
      "orig": "ch prononcés /k/ en anglais",
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    }
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chiastic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin chiasmus."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chiasmi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chiasma"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Lexique en anglais de la rhétorique",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund \"The Literary Sturcture of the Book of Habakkuk\", Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (4): 355, 1934",
          "text": "The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chaistic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Ethel Grodzins Romm, \"Persuasive Writing\", American Bar Association Journal 70: 158, 1984",
          "text": "John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:\n\"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "Simon R. Slings, \"Figures of Speech in Aristophanes\", in Andreas Willi (editor), The Language of Greek Comedy, pages 103-104, 2002",
          "text": "Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawī, Book One, page 46, 2009",
          "text": "The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Chiasme."
      ],
      "id": "fr-chiasmus-en-noun-0odtfeaM",
      "tags": [
        "rhetoric"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "ipa": "kaɪˈæːzməs",
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    "anglais",
    "ch prononcés /k/ en anglais"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "chiastic"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_texts": [
    "Du latin chiasmus."
  ],
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "chiasmi",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Anglais",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "pos_title": "Nom commun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "chiasma"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Exemples en anglais",
        "Exemples en anglais à traduire",
        "Lexique en anglais de la rhétorique"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "H. H. Walker & N. W. Lund \"The Literary Sturcture of the Book of Habakkuk\", Journal of Biblical Literature 53 (4): 355, 1934",
          "text": "The book of Habakkuk has been discovered to consist of a closely knit chaistic structure throughout. This is the first poem of such length to stand revealed as a literary unit of this kind, though chiasmus has already been discovered throughout many psalms […]"
        },
        {
          "ref": "Ethel Grodzins Romm, \"Persuasive Writing\", American Bar Association Journal 70: 158, 1984",
          "text": "John F. Kennedy is more famous for his chiasmus than for many of his policies:\n\"Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.\""
        },
        {
          "ref": "Simon R. Slings, \"Figures of Speech in Aristophanes\", in Andreas Willi (editor), The Language of Greek Comedy, pages 103-104, 2002",
          "text": "Leeman therefore holds that chiasmus is the basic order in Greek and Latin: antithesis is, he claims, normal for the modern, rational mind, but for the Greeks and Romans chiasmus was more natural."
        },
        {
          "ref": "Seyed Ghahreman Safavi & Simon Weightman, Rūmī's Mystical Design: Reading the Mathnawī, Book One, page 46, 2009",
          "text": "The realization that Mawlānā was using parallelism and chiasmus to organize the higher levels of his work has been a major surprise."
        }
      ],
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        "Chiasme."
      ],
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        "rhetoric"
      ]
    }
  ],
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