Anastrophe, by switching around words, has the effect of emphasizing text.
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Anastrophe
/əˈnæstɹəfi/
Synonyms for "anastrophe" (14 found)
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figure of speech
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reversalsword order inversion
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3 entriesfigure of speechlinguistic termrhetorical device
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1 entriessubject verb inversion
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6 entriesclassical rhetoricgrammatical inversionpoetic inversionrhetorical devicesyntactic inversionword order reversal
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Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.
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[…] 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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