ANACOLUTHON (anacolutha)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: anacolutha   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does anacoluthon mean? 

• ANACOLUTHON (noun)
  The noun ANACOLUTHON has 1 sense:

1. an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another

  Familiarity information: ANACOLUTHON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANACOLUTHON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

anacoluthia; anacoluthon

Hypernyms ("anacoluthon" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))