anacoluthon Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun an abrupt change within a sentence from one syntactic structure to another
    anacoluthia.

WordNet

An`a*co*lu"thon noun
Etymology
Gr. , , not following, wanting sequence; priv. + following.
Definitions
  1. (Gram.) A want of grammatical sequence or coherence in a sentence; an instance of a change of construction in a sentence so that the latter part does not syntactically correspond with the first part.

Webster 1913