Anacoluthon

Examples Help! What is the definition of Anacoluthon?

How do you define Anacoluthon? What is Anacoluthon? The word derives from the Greek word 'anakolouthon' meaning inconsistency in logic. The definition of Anacoluthon is as follows:

 

English Grammar & Terminology Definition of Anacoluthon - a poetic device
Definition: An abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another. Anacoluthon is often better represented with a dash
Definition of Anacoluthon - a poetic device

Examples of Anacoluthon in Poems & Poetry
Poems with Anacoluthon examples can be found by the most famous poets including Lewis Carroll

  • "Had ye been there — for what could that have done?" from 'Lycidas' by John Milton
  • Ulysses by James Joyce's Ulysses
  • June a poem by William Cullen Bryant "While fierce the tempests beat - Away! - I will not think of these"
  • The Walrus and the Carpenter a poem by Lewis Carroll
    "The time has come," the Walrus said,
    "To talk of many things:
    Of shoes—and ships—and sealing-wax—
    And cabbages—and kings—
    And why the sea is boiling hot—
    And whether pigs have wings."

Examples of Anacoluthon Poems

Examples Help! Use of Anacoluthon in Poems & Poetry
Examples of Anacoluthon can be found in many examples of the poem, poems or poetry. Famous poets use this figure of speech to convey and emphasize unusual and vivid images. The use of strong word association changes the mode of thought and adds variation, embellishment and adornment to literary works.

Examples Help - Figures of Speech - Anacoluthon
In Figurative Language we use words in such a way that they differ somewhat from ordinary every-day speech and convey meanings in a more vivid and impressive manner. Figures, like Anacoluthon make speech more effective, they beautify and emphasize it in Rhetoric which is the art of speaking and writing effectively. Figures of speech such as Anacoluthon use word association to convey emotion and mood often in a non-literal sense.

Examples Help! Using Anacoluthon
Figures of speech such as Anacoluthon adds adornment, beautifies, colors, elegant variation, embellishment, embroidery, emphasis, exaggeration, exclamation, flourish, floweriness, irony, lushness and luxuriance to the English language. This page providing facts and info about Figures of Speech will help with the understanding of this subject.

Figure of Speech Examples

  • Free educational resource
  • Poem, Poems & Poetry - Anacoluthon
  • Word association to convey emotion and mood.
  • Definition, sample and example - poetic device
  • Figure of Speech in English Grammar
  • Definitions, info, samples and examples of different English Figurative Language
  • Anacoluthon - figure, image, trope
  • Word association to convey emotion and mood.
  • Definition, info, sample and example - figure, image, trope - Poetic device
  • Poem, Poems & Poetry - poetic device
  • Examples Help!

Anacoluthon

Definition - Define - Info - Information - Example - Examples - Sample - Samples - Use - Sentence - Description - Explanation - English Language - Mood - Emotion - Literary term - Rhetoric - Online - Web - Free - English - Figure of Speech - Figurative Language - Figure - Image - Trope - Guide - Linguistics - Reference - Grammar - Grammer - Meaning - Study - List - Poetry - Poem - Poems - 10 - Definition - Define - Example - Info - Information - Examples - Sample - Samples - Use - Description - Explanation - English Language - Mood - Emotion - Literary term - Rhetoric - Online - Web - Free - English - Figure of Speech - Figurative Language - Figure - Image - Trope - Guide - Linguistics - Reference - Grammar - Grammer - Meaning - Info - Information - Sentence - Study - List - Poetry - Poem - Poems - 10 - Written By Linda Alchin