anastrophe
/əˈnastrəfi
/noun [mass noun] Rhetoric
The inversion of the usual order of words or clauses.The use of repetition, compound words, and anastrophe are key stylistic traits of Circle and are found throughout the collection of historic manuscripts that inspired it....
- Old English sounds riddled with anastrophe to speakers of Modern English.
- He also engages in that time-tested rhetorical device, the ad hominem attack, through an anastrophe.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from Greek anastrophē 'turning back', from ana- 'back' + strephein 'to turn'.
Rhymes
- tautologous
- tautologously
- tautology
- tautomer
- tautomeric
- tautomerisable
- tautomerisation
- tautomerise
- tautomerism
- tautomerizable
- tautomerization
- tautomerize
- tautomery
- tautometric
- tautometrical
- tautonym
- tautonymic
- tautonymy
- tautophonic
- tautophonical
- tautophony
- tautopodic
- tautopody
- tautosyllabic
- tautozonal