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Writing Devices - Rhetoric
Hyperbaton
Examples:
Using Anastrophe: Inverting subject and object
Effect: Conveys that a word, despite being an obbject, is the most interesting part of the sentence by pushing it to the front.
- Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage... - Richard Lovelace
- Object there was none. Passion there was none. - Edgar Allan Poe
- The earth is all the Lord's, with all her store and furniture; Yea, his is all the work, and all that therein doth endure: For he hath fastly founded it above the seas to stand, And placed below the liquid floods, to flow beneath the land. - Sternhold and Hopkins's
Using Anastrophe: Placing Adverb at Front
Effect: By placing the adverb up front, especially if it is an adverb of frequency, sends a message of urgency or desperation
- Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown - Milton
- Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. - W. Eugene Smith
- Always with you it cannot be done. - Yoda
Using Anastrophe: Placing Adjective at Front
- Powerful you have become, the dark side I sense in you - Yoda
- Bloody thou art; bloody will be thy end - Shakespeare, Richard III
Using Anastrophe: Inverting Noun and Adjective
Effect: creates a disoriented "whimsical;" also arcane.
- This is the forest primeval - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Using Anastrophe: Inverting Noun and Verbs
Effect: creates a disoriented "whimsical;" also arcane.
- Glistens the dew upon the morning grass.
Using Insertion
Effect: At the expense of losing clarity (because the "Law of Distance" is being broken), a "poetic disorientation" is created especially when assisted with strong cadence.
- For while the tired waves, vainly breaking, seem here no painful inch to gain - Arthur Hugh Clough