[Milton-L] Help with terminology sought

[Jameela Lares]

It's also an example of mesozeugma, or "middlemarcher."

A great resource for rhetorical terms is Gideon Burton's SILVA RHETORICAE,
http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/silva.htm.

(Sorry if I've sent this twice--the system here seemed to have cleared the first
post.)

Jameela

Quoting Angelica Duran <duran0 at exchange.purdue.edu>:

> 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
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