hyperbaton

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Here comes a violent but effective hyperbaton or suspension, in which the action of the mind mimics that of the labourer-- surveys his lot, low but free from care; then by a sudden strong act throws it over the shoulder or tosses it away as a light matter.

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  1. noun A figure of speech, such as anastrophe or hysteron proteron, using deviation from normal or logical word order to produce an effect.

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  • Here comes a violent but effective hyperbaton or suspension, in which the action of the mind mimics that of the labourer-- surveys his lot, low but free from care; then by a sudden strong act throws it over the shoulder or tosses it away as a light matter. —  Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published
  • Now the figure hyperbaton is the means which is employed by the best writers to imitate these signs of natural emotion. —  On the Sublime
  • = Note the separation of the epithets from the nouns, and the high level of diction produced by the hyperbaton. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • Note the hyperbaton in all these passages. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
  • The hyperbaton of _tota ... —  The Last Poems of Ovid
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  1. Greek huperbaton, from neuter of huperbatos, transposed, from huperbainein, to step over : huper-, over, across; see hyper- + bainein, to step; see gwā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, from Greek ὑπερβατός, transposed, verbal adjective of ύπερβαίνειν, step over, from ὑπέρ, over, + βαίνειν, go.
 

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/haɪˈpərbətɑn/
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