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/əˈnæstɹəfi/ · noun
(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence..
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.
Use anastrophe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Anastrophe means (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence..
Common synonyms include hyperbaton, inversion.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.
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