[Milton-L] Help with terminology sought

[Amy M Carleton]

I am not sure if there is a more appropriate term, but "hyperbaton" 
might be a way to describe your example.

Amy Carleton


Angelica Duran wrote:


>Dear scholars,
>
>I am at a loss for the correct terminology for poetic/rhetorical device 
in
>the following verse phrase
>
>"And leave, because even your foul silence/ corrupts, and your impure
>breath" (not Milton)
>
>where the subject "and impure breath" is placed after the verb rather 
than
>next to the other subject "foul silence."
>
>I believe it cannot be the device polysyndeton, an example of which from
>_PL_ is
>
>"[He] pursues his way, / And swims, or sinks, or wades, or creeps, or
>flies."
>
>In this example, the verbs not nouns are placed out of SVO order.
>
>All aid appreciated.
>
>Adios,
>
>Angelica Duran
>Associate Professor
>English and Comparative Literature
>Purdue University
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