CHIASMUS-APPROXIMATE  

甲乙乙甲法 - 差不多 Aproximate chiasm ABBA

Hypernym
  • CHIASMUSREPETITIO of of a pattern AB in reverse order ABBA. 甲乙乙甲法 ABBA, a minimal rondo form.
    • REPETITIORHETORICAL FIGURE in which one and the same lexical, phonological, syntactic, or semantic element is repeated for rhetorical effect./...x...x.../: non-adjacent repetition of the same word, contrast morphological reduplication.
      • RHETORICAL FIGURE形式詞格　RHETORICAL DEVICE which mainly consists in the distribution of expressions in a passage.
    Rhetorical device locations: 5
    • 百喻經 失釪於彼 世間愚人亦復如是
    • 韓非子 拔梁，

      梁可拔 / 拔梁 : but note that this is not within one sentence. I consider this example as interestingly spurious.

    • 韓非子 則魏可舉； 舉魏

      魏可舉 : but note that this is not within one sentence. I consider this example as interestingly spurious. 舉魏，

    • 道德經 惚兮恍兮 其中有象 恍兮忽兮
    • 論語 「晉文公譎而不正； 齊桓公正而不譎