HYPERBATON


Meaning of HYPERBATON in English

(Greek: transposed or inverted) a transposition or inversion of usual word order. The device is often used in poetry, as in line 13 from Canto II of Alexander Pope's The Rape of the Lock (171214): Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike.

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