CACOSINTETON S Logo Open and collaborative Dictionary Main page Meaning of position figures JohnJohnfiguras position 8FIGURAS POSITION the rhetorical or literary figures are classified into 1 . DICTION FIGURES 2 . Figures of order 3 . Thought Figures 4. figures of meaning and 5. quaint figures. Diction figures are classified into 4 subgroups 1. 1 transformation figures, 1. 1 repeat figures, 1. 3 omission figures, and 1. 4 POSITION FIGURES, which are the ones that alter the normal order of the parts of the sentence. It's 4 : 1. 4 . 1 HYPOBATON (Thank God for Thank God) 1 . 4 . 2 ANSTROFE (To God begging, and with the deck giving), 1 . 4 . 3 TEMESIS or LEXICAL ENCABALGING (elegantly speaking mind), and 1. 4 . 4 CACOSONTON , SINQUISIS or MIXTURA VERBORUM (de mengua seso is very great to have for the other great sons-in-laws have for small their own; very large redso water is to have by great other sons-in-man, suyis by small; Count Lucanor) "The synchisis causes a lot of confusion because it is a position figure that completely alters the order of the components of the statement. In Latin, through grammatical cases the order could be easily reconstructed, but in Spanish you cannot because not all the fundamental grammatical parts are declined.