Changing the normal order or arrangement. Transposition is a basic strategy in the manipulation of discourse for rhetorical purposes, along with addition, subtraction, and substitution, and occurs on many levels:

Related Figures

• See the Figures of Order
• Hyperbaton names that category of figures of speech based upon grammatical transpositions. These include:
  1. anastrophe
  2. tmesis
  3. hysterologia
  4. hysteron proteron
  5. hypallage
  6. parenthesis
  7. eperegesis

See Also

• Rhetorical Pedagogy: Imitation
  Rhetorical imitation includes directions on imitating by using transpositions.
• Other General Strategies of Rhetoric