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hyperbaton
literary device
- Greek:
- “transposed” or “inverted”
- Related Topics:
- figure of speech
hyperbaton, 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 (1712–14): “Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike.”