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Anacoluthon

noun
(pl. anacolutha)
1.
An abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another.  Synonym: anacoluthia.






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... the Aposiopaesian Auxiliaries, and Dithyramb that killed Punctuation in open fight; Parenthesis the giant and champion of the host, and Anacoluthon that never learned to read or write but is very handy with his sword; and Metathesis and Hendiadys, two Greeks. And last come the noble Gallicisms prancing about on their light horses: cavalry so sudden that the enemy sicken at the mere sight of them and are overcome without a blow. ...
— The Path to Rome • Hilaire Belloc



Words linked to "Anacoluthon" :   anacoluthia, rhetorical device



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