Chiasmus isn't something we endeavor to use during writing, but having written we can discover chiasmus. That is if one writes naturally. I'm learning a lot from this channel 😁
Yes, a lot of things like this can happen naturally, but, as one of my former teachers put it, learning about them explicitly gives us a greater ability to use them deliberately when the occasion calls for it. Glad you're learning a lot--thanks for watching!
@@WritingwithAndrew I'm in no position to debate that. However, I must add that I've been discovering more about my own writing through your videos. I'm finding that, while I'm about as far from a well-read literary scholar as one could get, I have an ear for literature. So, it would appear. The sentences/passages I've posted in your comments are from my first novel. I don't mean just the first novel I've published, but from the very first novel I'd written... which I dared to publish in 2020. I hadn't even started writing until 2015, and I started with that novel which I'd actually finished the first draft in less than 3 months. Don't ask me; I have no idea what's going on. But, for reasons unknown, I approach language with an unearned surety--I mean, "surety???" WTF?!? I'd never used that word before. O_o Growing up, no one around me read, so I didn't read except for school assignments. And later in life I only read and wrote technical documents. So, yeah, I'm baffled. I shared all of that so you have some idea of where I'm coming from when I talk about "discovery" and "flow." I'm completely oblivious to much of the terminology that you and others present on BookTube/AuthorTube, but I do learn a lot about what I've written and why I made the choices I did. And why I stand by those choices. Anyway, I appreciate you and am grateful for your channel. Thanx a bunch!
@@yapdog Yeah, for sure--it's great that you're learning more about why you made the choices you made. In my book, that equips you to replicate the successes in the future. At least in my experience, one of my challenges has been to learn to understand whether my writing is any good without relying on a teacher or other person to tell me, and I've found that a more explicit and less intuitive knowledge of writing has helped me--more when it comes to revision than drafting. And thanks for the kind words--I appreciate your support!
I would never spot this structure in a text. It amazes me that there is a name for it. I will think of myself as ignorant, rather than stupid, while I rejoice that the world is probably full of fascinating things like this, just waiting to be discovered.
Thanks for posting. Now I'm going to look for opportunities to use Chiasmus. This video is without doubt the most clear explanation of the subject. After watching other videos I thought I knew it. I know it now after watching this video. Just need to practice!!
When learning more about a rhetorical device, it is a good idea to ask yourself the following three questions: 1. Can you define the device? 2. When should you use the device? 3. Can you give a few examples? Let's see if we can answer the three questions above about chiasmus. 1. A construction in which two parallel parts of a sentence, usually clauses are inverted. 2. Chiasmus can add balance and elegance to your writing. Basically, it is a tool to achieve balance. 3. Examples: This city is called Hartford and the New Haven is the name of that city. I always extended help to them but resistance was what I usually received from them.
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The Book of Council of the K'iche Maya uses CHIASMUS as does the Book of Mormon leading Translator Allen Christenson to interpret the Book of Counsel as a twinning and kenning creation of sacred literature coming from the same people, the Maya, whose sacred book-known as the Popol Wuj is known in translation as the Book of Counselbor Book of Council, a ancient ancestral book founded in chiasmic structure. Nevertheless, many sacred text from our human past used chiasmus leading to the idea that just because ancient sacred literature is formed and framed with chiasmus this in itself dies not nean the Book of Mormon and the Popol Wuj are literary creations of the same people, the samenpeople who created these creations of sacred literature...OH PKEASE OH PLEASE TEACH US MORE ABOUT CHIASMUS TO HELP US IMPROVE OUR ATTEMPTS TO FORM AND SHAPE ANCIENT ANCESTRAL VERSE WRITTEN BY WRITERS OF ANCIENT ANCESTRAL VERSE...
