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| With striking chiasmus, Tolkien describes height and depth cancelling each other out by being inverted and juxtaposed: "They were in a deep dim-lit gully over-arched by trees high above them" (emphasis added, 152). We have here the philosophy of Platonism (procession and return) along with the literary symmetry of chiasmus (Books 1 and 9, 2 and 8, and so on). This involves trying first to distinguish among "simple" antithesis, parallel antithesis, chiasmus, paradox, paradoxism, and oxymoron. |
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