that's right, kids--it's the moment you've all been waiting for. drumroll please...and today's rhetorical figure is...
HYPERBATON: violation of the usual order of words. for examples of this, read ANYTHING by ausonius or paulinus of nola. an example in english might be: 'read this really to letter hard is' instead of 'this letter is really hard to read'. to put a normal english sentence into hyperbaton, i recommend that you simply think about the sentence for a moment, then think about what it would sound like if yoda said it, and then write that down.
very interesting bit of quintilian. it has been my understanding that hyperbaton is intentionally employed for rhetorical effect, while solecism is accidental and get belie a certain provinciality (as in augustine's case), which in turn might subject one to scorn.
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