Anastrophe

//əˈnæstɹəfi//

"Anastrophe" in a Sentence (3 examples)

Anastrophe, by switching around words, has the effect of emphasizing text.

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.

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