Question

Which one of these is an example of a chiasmus?

a Slow and steady wins the race.
b Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses.
c Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers.
d Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate.

Answer 1

d

Step-by-step explanation:

Chiasmus is the reversing of the order of words in the second of two parallel phrases or sentences. This rhetorical device is also referred to as reverse parallelism or syntactical inversion.