Which phrase defines "chiasmus" best? the use of repetition in opposite order with the focus on the structure of the phrasing the use of repetition at the beginning of sentences or phrases a reference to something common that most people should recognize a suggestion that one thing is like another thing when they are actually opposites

The phrase that defines "chiasmus" best is, the use of repetition in opposite order with the focus on the structure of the phrasing. It is a rhetorical and literary figure wherein two or more clauses are balanced against each other through the reversal of their structures. The term chiasmus is from a Latin word from Greek meaning "crossing".