Hyperbaton

/haɪˈpɜːbətɒn/

Synonyms for "hyperbaton" (18 found)

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Closest matches (4)

Noun(4 words)
anastrophediscontinuous syntaxdisplaced constituentsdisplaced order

Strong matches (5)

figure of speechhysteron proteronmalapropism
Noun(2 words)
inverted orderinverted word order

Related words (9)

Noun(3 words)
order reversalreordered constituentsword order displacement

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5 entries
figure of speechgrammatical variationlinguistic phenomenonrhetorical devicesyntactic phenomenon

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6 entries
Greek inversionLatin inversiondiscontinuous syntaxinversionlong-distance dependencyword order reversal

Collocations

6 entries
anastrophe usageclassical rhetoricgrammatical inversionpoetic inversionrhetorical deviceword order

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Derivations

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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.

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