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hyperbaton

Transposition of words or phrases from their normal order for effect, as in ‘Great is Diana of the Ephesians’. It is also used for the intrusion of a word from its own phrase or clause into another, as in Shakespeare's ‘Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow’.
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