Hyperbaton

[hai'pә:bәtɔn]

(noun.) reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love').

Editor: Xenia--From WordNet

(n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."

Checker: Witt

n. (Rhet.) Inversion, transposition of words.

Checked by Jacques

n. (rhet.) a figure by which words are transposed from their natural order.—adj. Hyperbat′ic.—adv. Hyperbat′ically.

Edited by Gene