The name of his dog is — I don't really remember right now.
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Anacoluthon
//ænəkəˈluːθɒn//
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14 translations across 13 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἀνακόλουθον noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Catalan
1 entries- anacolut noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Dutch
1 entries- anakoloet noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Finnish
1 entries- anakoluutti noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
French
1 entries- anacoluthe noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
German
2 entries- Anakoluth noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
- Satzbruch noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Greek
1 entries- ανακόλουθο noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Italian
1 entries- anacoluto noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Latin
1 entries- anacolūthon noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Polish
1 entries- anakolut noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Portuguese
1 entries- anacoluto noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Russian
1 entries- анаколу́ф noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
Spanish
1 entries- anacoluto noun (intentional rhetorical structure)
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Another species of anacoluthon is when, after the sentence is begun with a participle, the construction passes over into a finite verb, where we should naturally expect the participial construction to be continued.
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Anacoluthon, though a grammatical defect, is a rhetorical beauty, if naturally produced or imitated; as, "If thou art he—but oh! how fallen!"
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