Read the sentence. You can take the girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl. Which rhetorical device is used in this sentence?

The sentence reverses the order of its key ideas: “the girl out of the country” becomes “the country out of the girl.” This crossed, reversed structure is chiasmus, so the correct choice is B, chiasmus. Antithesis involves contrasting ideas, but the deliberate reversal of the words and structure is the defining feature here.

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