This week I want to return to a delightful rhetorical and grammatical device, the chiasmus. What is it, how do you pronounce it, and what is it good for? These are the questions we will deal this week ...

Let's talk about schemes. Not schemes of the nefarious sort, but schemes of word order. There are various types, including schemes of repetition ("I have a dream that one day … I have a dream that one ...

Practically everyone in the world knows that line, Forsyth said. “Indeed there was a recent poll in which that was voted the greatest ever one-liner in movie history.” Which, if you think about it, is ...

Okay, so you may have read the headline and thought: "What's a chiasmus?" If you didn't, then you're way ahead of me and many others. I hadn't heard the word until I saw this new video from Netflix ...

I recently stumbled upon a list of “The Top 20 Figures of Speech.” The title alone intrigues me. Who initiated the competition? What were the qualifications for the judges? Did the entrants nominate ...

The verbal divine response to a case of blasphemy/cursing of God is presented as a lengthy chiasmus in Lev 24,13-23. One aspect of this that has gone unnoticed is how the structure suggests that ...