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Rhetoric is a term that is broadly used, but its most classical definition is the art of persuasion. If you are asked to write a rhetorical analysis, you are really being asked to identify the particular strategies that an author is using to appeal to or persuade a given audience. In rhetoric, chiasmus or, less commonly, chiasm is a "reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses – but no repetition of words". Chiasmus is a rhetorical device in which two or more clauses are balanced against each other by the reversal of their structures in order to produce an artistic effect. A popular chiasmus is " Never Let a Fool Kiss You or a Kiss Fool you". A literary device as the rhetoric of chiasmus may be expressed in the school of Physics as Chirality . In geometry, a kissing number is defined as the number of non-overlapping unit spheres that can be arranged such that they each touch a common unit sphere. For a lattice packing the kissin...