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Hyperbaton

noun
1.
Reversal of normal word order (as in 'cheese I love').





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... Sic. This confusion of persons constantly occurs in Boccaccio, especially in the conversational parts of the Decameron, in which he makes the freest use of the various forms of enallage and of other rhetorical figures, such as hyperbaton, synecdoche, etc., to the no small detriment of his style in ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio


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