Hypertext Webster Gateway: "anastrophe"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Anastrophe \A*nas"tro*phe\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn up or back;
? + ? to turn.] (Rhet. & Gram.)
An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the
hills, for, the hills echoed.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

anastrophe
n : the reversal of the normal order of words [syn: {inversion}]


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