| anastrophe |
| Definition - The inverting of the expected word order. |
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Example - "Once upon a banker leery …." |
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Etymology - The word derives from the Greek ana, back again + strephein, a turning. |
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Oxford English Dictionary - Its first 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)) |