英文修辞chiasmus例句(3页).doc

-英文修辞chiasmus例句-第 3 页"I flee who chases me, and chase who flees me."(Ovid)"Fair is foul, and foul is fair."(William Shakespeare, Macbeth I.i)"If black men have no rights in the eyes of the white men, of course the whites can have none in the eyes of the blacks."(Frederick Douglass, "An Appeal to Congress for Impartial Suffrage")"The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order."(Alfred North Whitehead)"Do I love you because you're beautiful?Or are you beautiful because I love you?"(Oscar Hammerstein II, "Do I Love You Because You're Beautiful?")"The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults."(Peter De Vries)"People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power."(President Bill Clinton, August 2008)"You can take it out of the country, but you can't take the country out of it."(slogan for Salem cigarettes) "My job is not to represent Washington to you, but to represent you to Washington."(Barack Obama)Chiasmus As Verbal Judo"The root pattern is called 'chiasmus' because, diagrammed, it forms an 'X,' and the Greek name for X is chi. When John Kennedy constructed his famous bromide, 'Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country,' he went to the Well of Antithesis for his active ingredient. Where does the 'X' power come from? . . . Obviously a verbal judo is at work here. By keeping the phrase but inverting its meaning we use our opponent's own power to overcome him, just as a judo expert does. So a scholar remarked of another's theory, 'Cannon entertains that theory because that theory entertains Cannon.' The pun on 'entertain' complicates the chiasmus here, but the judo still prevails-Cannon is playing with the power of his own mind rather than figuring out the secrets of the universe."(Richard A. Lanham, Analyzing Prose, 2nd ed. Continuum, 2003)