What's the difference between chiasmus and zeugma?

Chiasmus


Definition:

  • (n.) An inversion of the order of words or phrases, when repeated or subsequently referred to in a sentence

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But doing so has never been as simple or as uncontested as his neatly balanced chiasmus implies.

Zeugma


Definition:

  • (n.) A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;" where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.

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