[Milton-L] Thanks for Help with terminology sought

[Angelica Duran]

Dear scholars,

Many thanks for your responses to my question. It seems from the internet
and book resources I consulted after hearing from you that

1) "hyperbaton" is the correct general term
2) "anastrophe" is often but incorrectly used to refer to all
hyperbaton--incorrectly because it refers to re-ordering of a single works
3) "mesozeugma" is the correct specific term.

...I think (!).

Adios,
Angelica Duran




> From: Jameela Lares <Jameela.Lares at usm.edu>
> Reply-To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2007 14:16:31 -0500
> To: John Milton Discussion List <milton-l at lists.richmond.edu>
> Subject: Re: [Milton-L] Help with terminology sought
> 
> 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
>> Associate Professor
>> English and Comparative Literature
>> Purdue University
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>> 
>> 
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