Literary style: fronted predicate and hyperbaton
Everything you need to read and write the way a genuinely stylish page of Serbian actually does, in one path. Start with the three devices literary and rhetorical registers reach for - predicate-fronting for dramatic emphasis, hyperbaton splitting an adjective from its noun across the verb, and inversion in rhetorical questions and exclamations - then learn the vocabulary for talking about style itself, take seven guided lessons that build from each device's own words to correcting the traps a learner makes, listen to a novelist explain her own word order in her own words, read a short literary vignette built on the same devices, write a literary narrative about a place from your past reaching for a hyperbaton of your own, and finally describe aloud a place that genuinely took your breath away.
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