anastrophe
See also: Anastrophe
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ).
Noun
anastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural anastrophes)
- (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
- Synonyms: inversion, hyperbaton
- [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, OCLC 1062248511, page 43:
- Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change,
Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.]
- 1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon:
- […] 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
- anastrophic
- anastrophism
Translations
switching in the syntactical order of words
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See also
anastrophe on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
Pronunciation
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Noun
anastrophe f (plural anastrophes)
- anastrophe
Further reading
- “anastrophe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.