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anacolutha

Variant of anacoluthon

noun pl. anacolutha or anacoluthons

  1. a change from one grammatical construction to another within the same sentence, sometimes as a rhetorical device
  2. a sentence in which this occurs (Ex.: “A man, young lady! lady, such a man as all the world— why, he's a man of wax!”)

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