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Hyperbaton

//haɪˈpɜːbətɒn// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.

    "In real life we often see a man under the influence of rage, or fear, […] begin a sentence, and then swerve aside into some inconsequent parenthesis, and then again double back to his original statement […]Now the figure hyperbaton is the means which is employed by the best writers to imitate these signs of natural emotion."

  2. 2
    reversal of normal word order (as in ‘cheese I love’) wordnet
  3. 3
    Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition. rhetoric

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπερβαίνω (huperbaínō), from ὑπέρ (hupér) + βαίνω (baínō, “walk”).

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