Chiasmus

What is Chiasmus?

1. (rhetorical figure): A reversing of the order of words in corresponding pairs of phrases.

leges supplicio improbos afficiunt, defendunt ac tuentur bonos (Cicero, De Legibus, ii. 13)

The laws VISIT PUNISHMENTS upon the wicked, but the good they DEFEND and PROTECT.

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Straightaway

1. adverb 1. act upon an impulse 2. to do something without question, regardless of it's consequences 3. how everything should be d..

Uberwhelming

1. So much more than overwhelming that it's uberwhelming. His erection was so huge, it was uberwhelming. See overwhelmed, underwhelm..

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