📚 noun • entry_id 37005
hyperbaton
/haɪˈpɜːbətɒn/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
hipérbato • hipérbaton
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…
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