hyperbaton


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hyperbaton /hʌɪˈpəːbətɒn/
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’.
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