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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Hy·per·ba·ton n.  Gram. A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, “echoed the hills” for “the hills echoed.”
    With a violent hyperbaton to transpose the text.   --Milton.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 hyperbaton
      n : reversal of normal word order (as in `cheese I love')