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Definition of anacoluthon in English: anacoluthonnounPlural anacoluthaˌanəkəˈluːθɒnˌanəkəˈluːθ(ə)nˌænəkəˈluθɑn A sentence or construction in which the expected grammatical sequence is absent, for example while in the garden, the door banged shut. Example sentencesExamples - For example, Plato's dialogues contain a lot of anacolutha, which would now be rejected as ungrammatical, and the same applies to Shakespeare's plays.
- The use of anacoluthon in his essay causes the opinion that he gives to sound more like fact and therefore even more persuasive.
- The poem's ruins are a kind of anacoluthon in stone, a failed statement, the shattered vessels that once held the noisy social world of the noble warrior, from which the speaker is cut off and to which he cannot return.
- Even the label ‘colloquialism’ may not be always adequate to interpret anacolutha in Cicero, as Cicero, in the dialogues, often seems to use them to represent a speaker's emphasis.
- At the beginning of the play, his agitated emotional state is reflected in his language: self-apostrophe, anacolutha etc.
- He takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
- Usually, anacolutha are close enough to a grammatical construction, or can be traced back to a familiar pattern, to be understood without problem by the receptor.
- Moreover, there is a wide range of phenomena (ranging from anacolutha to disfluencies) which are in fact specific to spoken language only.
- Such anacoluthon is usually graceful and free from obscurity.
- This constraint shows itself in the repetition of words and phrases; in the verbal oppositions and anacolutha of St. Paul; in the short sentences of St. John.
- She employed, not by way of stylistic refinement, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.
- On the other hand, his style suffers from ellipses, parentheses (of which there are many), and anacolutha.
Derivatives adjective His theoretical interests include the cyclical nature of desire and the engagement of anacoluthic time. Example sentencesExamples - But the introduction begins by discussing how difficult it is to provide an accurate historical narrative of a period when one is still so close to its formative elements, and then in anacoluthic fashion, turns to a lengthy description of each of the papers.
- However he points out that the recourse to syntactic norms yields an anacoluthic sentence in that the substantive ‘riverrun’ lacks some kind of article.
- The cast includes this actress, as the season's most adorable waif, whose anacoluthic lament for a hot-rod lover creates a haunting innocence amid squalor.
Origin Early 18th century: via late Latin from Greek anakolouthon, from an- 'not' + akolouthos 'following'. Definition of anacoluthon in US English: anacoluthonnounˌænəkəˈluθɑnˌanəkəˈlo͞oTHän A sentence or construction in which the expected grammatical sequence is absent, for example while in the garden, the door banged shut. Example sentencesExamples - The poem's ruins are a kind of anacoluthon in stone, a failed statement, the shattered vessels that once held the noisy social world of the noble warrior, from which the speaker is cut off and to which he cannot return.
- For example, Plato's dialogues contain a lot of anacolutha, which would now be rejected as ungrammatical, and the same applies to Shakespeare's plays.
- He takes no thought for style, and his work is marked by frequent pleonasm, anacoluthon, etc.
- Such anacoluthon is usually graceful and free from obscurity.
- This constraint shows itself in the repetition of words and phrases; in the verbal oppositions and anacolutha of St. Paul; in the short sentences of St. John.
- Even the label ‘colloquialism’ may not be always adequate to interpret anacolutha in Cicero, as Cicero, in the dialogues, often seems to use them to represent a speaker's emphasis.
- She employed, not by way of stylistic refinement, but in order to correct her imprudences, abrupt breaches of syntax not unlike that figure which the grammarians call anacoluthon or some such name.
- Moreover, there is a wide range of phenomena (ranging from anacolutha to disfluencies) which are in fact specific to spoken language only.
- On the other hand, his style suffers from ellipses, parentheses (of which there are many), and anacolutha.
- The use of anacoluthon in his essay causes the opinion that he gives to sound more like fact and therefore even more persuasive.
- At the beginning of the play, his agitated emotional state is reflected in his language: self-apostrophe, anacolutha etc.
- Usually, anacolutha are close enough to a grammatical construction, or can be traced back to a familiar pattern, to be understood without problem by the receptor.
Origin Early 18th century: via late Latin from Greek anakolouthon, from an- ‘not’ + akolouthos ‘following’. |