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My mind is really drawing a blank ... I'm looking for the term for a certain syntactical device in Latin. The word describes when the juxtaposition of words reflects the actual action in the sentence. For example, (if I remember correctly) there's a sentence in the Aeneid where Nisus slips in some blood. The action is reflected in the syntax by his name being in between the words describing the situation. I know there's a word for it, but I can't find it for the life of...
Name of Certain Syntactical Device
My mind is really drawing a blank ... I'm looking for the term for a certain syntactical device in Latin. The word describes when the juxtaposition of words reflects the actual action in the sentence. For example, (if I remember correctly) there's a sentence in the Aeneid where Nisus slips in some blood. The action is reflected in the syntax by his name being in between the words describing the situation. I know there's a word for it, but I can't find it for the life of...
Name of Certain Syntactical Device