Anastrophe Definition
ə-năstrə-fē
noun
Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words; for example,
American Heritage
Reversal of the usual order of the parts of a sentence; inversion (Ex.: “Came the dawn”)
Webster's New World
(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
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Other Word Forms of Anastrophe
Noun
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anastrophePlural:
anastrophesOrigin of Anastrophe
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Late Latin anastrophē from Greek from anastrephein to turn upside-down ana- ana- strephein to turn streb(h)- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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