| hyperbaton |
| Definition: Adding emphasis by using words in an unexpected order. |
| Example: Size matters not! Judge me by my size, do you? (Tom Cruise) |
| Etymology: The word means "overstepping" in Greek (from Greek hyper, over + bainein, to step). |
| Oxford English Dictionary: Its first citation is from 1579: "A patheticall parenthesis, to encrease a carefull Hyperbaton." (E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. May) |