| anastrophe |
| Definition: The inverting of the expected word order. |
| Example: "Once upon a banker leery …." |
| Etymology: The word derives from the Greek ana, back again + strephein, a turning. |
| OED: Its first OED citation is from 1577: "Anastrophe, a preposterous order, or a backward setting of words, thus: All Italy about I went, which is contrary to plain order, I went about all Italy." (Henry Peacham, the Elder, The Garden of Eloquence (1577)) |