In Portuguese stylistics, which stylistic device involves the inversion of the natural syntactic order of sentence elements?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. Hipérbato estilístico
- Step 1: Normal Portuguese word order is Subject-Verb-Object. Step 2. Inverting or displacing words from their natural syntactic position for poetic or expressive emphasis is called hipérbato. Answer: Hipérbato (hyperbaton). Why not the others: Anaphora repeats initial words; assonance repeats vowel sounds; alliteration repeats consonant sounds.
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