hyperbatonn.
/hʌɪˈpəːbət(ə)n/, /hʌɪˈpəːbətɒn/, U.S. /haɪˈpərbəˌtɑn/ Grammar and Rhetoric.
A figure of speech in which the customary or logical order of words or phrases is inverted, esp. for the sake of emphasis. Also, an example of this figure.(The substantive is first recorded in Latin authors (Quintilian and Pliny); but Plato and Aristotle use the verbal adjective ὑπερβατός with reference to transpositions in language.)
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > inversion
anastrophe1555
hyperbaton1579
inversion1583
trespasser1589
1579 E. K. in E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. May Gloss. A patheticall parenthesis, to encrease a carefull Hyperbaton.
1599 F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) 56 The sence..ys ‘the fende makethe this’, for whiche Chaucer vsethe these wordes by Transpositione, (accordinge to the rethoricall figure Hiperbatone,) ‘This makethe the fende’.
1641 J. Milton Animadversions 39 If your meaning be with a violent..Hyperbaton to transpose the Text.
1727 H. Herbert tr. C. Fleury Eccl. Hist. I. 62 There are so many..hyperbatons and transpositions, which render his stile difficult.
1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric II. iii. iv. 402 We have here a considerable hyperbaton..there being no less than thirteen words interposed between the noun and the preposition.
1866 A. Bain Eng. Composit. & Rhet. 38 The Hyperbaton..is purposed inversion..before announcing something of great emphasis and import, thus giving to a meditated expression the effect of an impromptu.
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