Question

which figure of speech is used in this text? i meant what i said and i said what i meant. . . an elephants faithful one hundred per cent! —dr. seuss, horton hatches the egg

Explanation:

Chiasmus is a figure - of - speech where the order of words in one clause is reversed in the next. Here, "I meant what I said" and "I said what I meant" show this pattern. An apostrophe is a punctuation mark or a figure of speech where the speaker addresses an absent person, thing, or idea. This text does not use an apostrophe in that sense.

Answer:

chiasmus