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").

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"

See also

• Anastrophe
• Apposition
• Figure of speech
• Parenthesis

Rhetoric

Hipèrbaton | Hyperbaton | Iperbato | Hyperbaton