Hyperbaton
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Hyperbaton is a figure of speech that uses deliberate and dramatic departure from standard syntax (word order) for emphasis or poetic effect. This term is sometimes used as a synonym for anastrophe, but is more properly used as a general term for figures of disorder, of which anastrophe, parenthesis, and apposition are more specific types.
Derived from the Greek hyper ("over") and bainein ("to step"), with the tos/ton verbal adjective suffix.
Examples:
- Word order reversal in "Cheese I love!"
- One of the most popular examples - "Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you?" - Yoda in "The Empire Strikes Back"
