anastrophe

Definitions

Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

countable, rhetoric, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change⟳, Gracefuly puts last⟳ the words that first should range.”

“[…] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover⟳ of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure⟳ anastrophe, or a turning about and about.”

CEFR level