Associations to the word «Hyperbaton»

Wiktionary

HYPERBATON, noun. (grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.

Dictionary definition

HYPERBATON, noun. Reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love').

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope