Anastrophe, by switching around words, has the effect of emphasizing text.
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Anastrophe
//əˈnæstɹəfi//
Synonyms for "anastrophe" (12 found)
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Closest matches (3)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (3)
Related words (6)
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10 entrieshas context
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22 translations across 14 languages.
Catalan
1 entries- anàstrofe noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 倒裝 /倒装 noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- 倒裝句 /倒装句 noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
French
1 entries- anastrophe noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
German
2 entries- Anastrophe noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- Inversion noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Greek
1 entries- αναστροφή noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Irish
1 entries- anastróf noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Italian
1 entries- anastrofe noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Japanese
2 entries- 倒置 noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- 倒置法 noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Polish
4 entries- inwersja noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- metateza noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- przekładnia noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- przestawnia noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Portuguese
1 entries- anástrofe noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Russian
1 entries- анастро́фа noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- anastrófa noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
- анастро́фа noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Spanish
1 entries- anástrofe noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Tagalog
1 entries- kabaligtaran noun (switching in the syntactical order of words)
Sample sentences
3 total sentences available.
Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.
Source: wiktionary
[…] 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.
Source: wiktionary
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