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))



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