单词 | anastrophe |
释义 | anastrophen. Grammar and Rhetoric. A figure of speech in which words or clauses in a sentence are inverted or arranged in an unusual order. Cf. hyperbaton n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > inversion anastrophe1555 hyperbaton1579 inversion1583 trespasser1589 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. xviiiv Anastrophe, a preposterous orderyng or setting of woordes, as: The sea floweth all Englande about. 1612 J. Brinsley Posing of Parts 26 Q. May not the rest of the Prepositions be so set after their cases also? A. Yes: by the figure Anastrophe. 1880 J. T. Champlin Excerpta Tacitiana 26 Tacitus by anastrophe often gives conjunctions a post-position, instead of their usual one before the word or at the beginning of the sentence which they connect. 1948 Classical Q. 442 99 In extending the anastrophe of prepositions from pronouns to nouns, Lucretius follows Greek models. 2011 W. Farnsworth Farnsworth's Classical Eng. Rhetoric 115 This device used to be strongly associated with Shakespeare; for today's student, anastrophe is more likely to bring to mind the Yoda character in the Star Wars movies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1555 |
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