Chiasmus Or antimetabole?

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Read your chiasmus article — which suggested that putting the same words to use in the second clause would be more antimetabolic. Still left wondering, what would this example be: “It’s not that artificial things are becoming intelligent, but that intelligent things are becoming artificial.”

English Tutor Answered question April 15, 2019
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It is the same. As the word order is reversed, it is chaismus.

English Tutor Answered question April 15, 2019