hyperbaton

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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 figure hyperbaton is the means which is employed by the best writers to imitate these signs of natural emotion.
  2. Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition. rhetoric

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hyperbatons plural hyperbata plural

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Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπερβατόν (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ὑπερβαίνω (huperbaínō), from ὑπέρ (hupér) + βαίνω (baínō, “walk”).
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