Is this chiasmus ?

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3.06K viewsMay 10, 2019

Is this chiasmus? Iago says this in Othello.

“Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves”

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score 0 · Answer 1 · 2019-05-10T03:11:21+00:00

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No, it is a paradox. In chiasmus, the terms are reversed. Here, nothing has been reversed.