hyperbaton
An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.
Noun
- 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 his original statement […]Now the...
Synonyms: anastrophe inversion
- Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.
Origin
Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπερβαίνω (huperbaínō), from ὑπέρ (hupér) + βαίνω (baínō, “walk”).