English 102: British and American Literature, 1650-1780
Professor Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook

MWF 11:00-11:50 l Girvetz 1004 l office hours: M 2-3, Th 10-11 l office: South Hall 2503 l 893-3349 l ecook@english.ucsb.edu l
TAs: Gordon Batchelor l Rachel Mann l Lara Rutherford l Summer Star

Chiasmus: A type of rhetorical balance in which the second part is syntactically balanced against the first but with the parts reversed … (Holman, Handbook to Literature)

Chiasmus: (Greek “crossing”) … from the Greek letter X (chi) whose shape, if the two halves of the construction are rendered in separate verses, it resembles … (Lanham, Handlist of Rhetorical Terms)

Eve’s vision of herself in the pond As I bent down to look, just opposite, A Shape within the wat’ry gleam appear’d Bending to look on me, I started back, It started back, but pleas’d I soon return’d, Pleas’d it return’d as soon with answering looks Of sympathy and love … IV.460-65 (CR 40) Eve’s last speech to Adam, leaving Eden … but now lead on; In mee is no delay; with thee to go, Is to stay here; without thee here to stay, Is to go hence unwilling …                                                  XII.614-17 (CR 52)