Which figure of speech is used in this text?
People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.
—President Bill Clinton, speech at the 2008 Democratic National Convention
A: apostrophe
B: chiasmus
The text uses chiasmus, an expression in which the second half parallels the first but reverses the order of words.
The second half of the sentence reverses the order of the words power and example relative to the first half.