TEMESIS grave word, without accent is a phonetic deformation by TMESIS that comes from Latin and which means cutting, separation, and whose "TM" is difficult to pronounce. It is a rhetorical figure belonging to group 1 figures of diction, subgroup 1. 1 position figures, consisting of HIP-BARTON , ANSTROFE[/E[ , TMESIS or temesis , and synchisis . It consists of separating a word or phrase and inserting a new term in the middle or, also, by mediating a metric pause : In two words : im-pressing !!!