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What (who) is hyperbaton - definition
FIGURE OF SPEECH
Hyperbatons
Hyperbaton
·noun A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed.".
hyperbaton
n.
(Rhet.) Inversion, transposition of words.
hyperbaton
[h??'p?:b?t?n]
¦ noun Rhetoric an inversion of the normal order of words, especially for emphasis, as in 'this I must see'.
Origin
C16: via L. from Gk huperbaton 'overstepping'.
Wikipedia
Hyperbaton
Hyperbaton , in its original meaning, is a figure of speech in which a phrase is made discontinuous by the insertion of other words. In modern usage, the term is also used more generally for figures of speech that transpose sentences' natural word order, and it is also called an anastrophe.
