Noun: anacoluthon (anacolutha) ,a-nu-ku'loo,thón or ,a-nu-ku'loo-thun
- An abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
"His speech was full of anacoluthon, making it hard to follow";
- anacoluthia
Derived forms: anacolutha
Type of: rhetorical device
Encyclopedia: Anacoluthon