"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." It just so happens that one of the most immortal phrases of one of the most immortal political speeches in history is a chiasmus. Coincidence? Indeed not. Jack knew what he was doing. Chiasmus, which originated from the Greek chiasmos, "to place crosswise", is a rhetorical device containing two or more clauses.
[...] Gesundheit: On Chiasmus not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.” It just so happens that one of the most immortal phrases of one of the most immortal political speeches in history is a chiasmus. Coincidence? Indeed not. Jack knew what he was doing. Chiasmus, which originated from the Greek chiasmos, place crosswise”, is a rhetorical device containing two or more clauses, of which the second half is an inversion of the first, be it an inversion of sound, letter, word, or phrase. [...]
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