Readers will also find useful the extensive bibliography and index of what had been written up to 1980 on each identifiable chiastic passage. In 1981, an significant bibliography of works on chiasmus was published in Chiasmus in Antiquity . Chiasmus Bibliography extends that bibliographic effort by including a large number of relevant works published or located in the last two decades. Students of this literary form will find Chiasmus Bibliography an invaluable guide to the growing body of scholarly writings on this subject. If you aren't sure what chiasmus means, you have a lot of company.
Chiasmus occurs when the order of words is reversed in parallel expressions.