What's your favourite chiasmus?
2006-08-15 21:22:03 · 6 answers · asked by Rox 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Eggman- I too suffered Latin for 5 years... I think it was Ovid that used chiasmus?
2006-08-15 21:31:31 · update #1
"Its better to have a gun and not need one than to need a gun and not have one" Clarence - True Romance
Is that a chiasmus?
2006-08-16 00:48:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Well I have shared a few meals with people that I suspect have had a frontal labotomy so I'd probably prefer the former
Haven't got a clue what a chiasmus is but if you're offering I'll have a large chianti!
2006-08-16 00:39:53 · answer #2 · answered by The Don 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chiasmus? I remember that from Latin class... let's see....
"Invention is the mother of necessity." -- Thorstein Veblen
2006-08-15 21:28:45 · answer #3 · answered by eggman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So who cut out your lab? Would have thought a classical scholar would have had the frontal lobes to spell lobotomy . .
2006-08-16 04:06:45 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would rather be on a boat with a drink on the rocks rather than in the drink with my boat on the rocks
2006-08-15 21:29:51 · answer #5 · answered by Dirty Rob 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
“I wasted time, and now time doth waste me.” Shakespeare, Richard II, 5:5-49
2006-08-15 21:28:15 · answer #6 · answered by Fluke 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋