anastrophe
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See also: Anastrophe
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).
Noun
[edit]anastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural anastrophes)
- (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
- Synonyms: inversion, hyperbaton
- 1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon[1]:
- […] 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.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]switching in the syntactical order of words
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See also
[edit]- anastrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]anastrophe f (plural anastrophes)
Further reading
[edit]- “anastrophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.