Figures of Unusual Word Order
Anastrophe
Arrangment by reversal of ordinary word order, usually confined to the transposition of two words only
Figures pedantical---Love's Labour's Lost, 5.2.407
Hyperbaton
Departure from ordinary word order
Yet I'll not shed her blood,/ Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow...---Othello, 5.2.3
Hysteron Proteron
Reversal of temporal order
My dame that bred me up and bare me in her wombe.---The Arte of English Poesie, 142
Hypallage
A reversal of words which seems to change the sense
Open the day, and see if it be the window.---The Garden of Eloquence
Parenthesis
A word, phrase, or sentence inserted as an aside in a sentence complete by itself
But now my Deere (for so love makes me to call you still)/ That love I say, that lucklesse love, that works me all this ill.---The Arte of English Poesie, 141
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