different between hyperbaton vs synchysis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin hyperbaton, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ????????? (huperbatón, “overstepping”), from ????????? (huperbaín?), from ???? (hupér) + ????? (baín?, “walk”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ha??p??b?t?n/

Noun

hyperbaton (plural hyperbatons or hyperbata)

1. (grammar) An inversion of the usual or logical order of words or phrases, for emphasis or poetic effect.

   Synonym: anastrophe
2. (rhetoric) Adding a word or thought to a sentence that is already semantically complete, thus drawing emphasis to the addition.

Translations

Further reading

• hyperbaton on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

English

Alternative forms

• synchesis
• synchisis

Etymology

Through Latin from the Ancient Greek ???????? (súnkhusis, “a mixing”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?n.k?.s?s/

Noun

synchysis (countable and uncountable, plural synchyses)

1. (poetics) A complicated, interlocking word-order pattern in early Latin verse, demonstrated by Virgil and his contemporaries.
2. (rhetoric) Confused arrangement of words in a sentence
3. A confused mixture.
4. Fluidity of the vitreous humour of the eye.

See also

• hyperbaton
• anastrophe

References

• Silva Rhetoricae