Chiasmus

Today we looked at Epicurus, and I was explaining how he used chiasmus (e.g. "Where we are, death is not, and where death is, we are not"). Except that I didn't, because the word "chiasmus" remained firmly glued to the tip of my tongue. Greek words raced through my mind, all, strangely enough, beginning with "A": aporia, asyndeton, ataraxia ... In the end I ended up writing "ABBA" on the board. An ABBA sentence sounds less like "Not the spectacle of the end of society, but the end of the society of the spectacle" and more like "Super trouper dreams are gonna find me."