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1 Heart of Darkness Discussion
1 Heart of Darkness Discussion
1 Heart of Darkness Discussion
7 Class Notes 1
APE Medeval Literaure and Frye’s Mythoi Dan Parker
2 A Note on Chiasmus
- Chiasmus is when words are placed in ABBA order
- in Latin this refers to pairs that agree in case, gender, number
- in English, however, as well as in a more general literary context, it can refer to related words or
phrases in following pattern:
AB
BA
- notice that this forms a pattern like the Greek letter χ (chi)
- hence chiasmus