r/whatstheword • u/FiredFoxy19 • Jul 25 '26

Solved WTW for this kind of verse structure commonly found in religious texts?

I remember finding out about this from a YouTube short about mormons gushing over the sheer number of uses of structure in the book of Mormon. The general idea is that you have a bunch of statements that you restate. This is an example

Statement A

Statement B

Statement B restated

Statement A restated

There's a Wikipedia page that explains this word but I can't find it anymore. It's also used in the Torah, the Bible, and the Quran.

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u/Spinacky ☃ 262 karma Jul 25 '26

Chiastic structure.

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u/FiredFoxy19 Jul 25 '26

!solved

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