ANACOLUTHON

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: anacolutha   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another

Synonyms:

anacoluthia; anacoluthon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("anacoluthon" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))

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