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Anastrophe

//əˈnæstɹəfi// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence. countable, rhetoric, uncountable

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

  2. 2
    the reversal of the normal order of words wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

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