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Antimetabole
and Chiasmus
To the Editor:
Why does Thomas Mermall write of chiasmus rather than
antimetabole in "The Chiasmus: Unamuno's Master Trope"
(105 [1990]:245-55)? He utilizes a wide arrayof time-honored
as well as recenttechnicalvocabularybut, textbook lists of defi-