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Problem 13 - Entrance Test

Choose the sentence that best exemplifies the use of chiasmus.

A. Ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country.B. The sun rises and the sun sets.C. Easy come, easy go.D. He went to the store and then came home.

Correct: A

Option A exemplifies chiasmus, a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. It's an inverted relationship between the syntactic elements of parallel phrases. In this case 'country' and 'you' are inverted.