parembole  parembole
 pa-rem'-bo-lee from para, "beside" and embole, "throwing in"

  A figure of interruption closely related to parenthesis. Parembole occurs when the interrupting matter has a connection to the sentence subject, whereas the interrupting material of parenthesis need have no such connection.

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