Anastrophe

Quick meaning: Anastrophe is a noun meaning (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

Meaning

(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

Example Sentences

Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.

[…] 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.

Word Forms

• anastrophes

Synonyms for anastrophe

Depending on context, synonyms include hyperbaton, inversion.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include inversion, antistrophe, epanastrophe, hypostrophe, anacoluthon, anadiplosis.

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