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anastrophe

Syllables: anas·tro·pheUK/əˈnæstɹəfi/

anastrophe noun: unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

Noun

anastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural anastrophes)

  1. (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
    • Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change,
      Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Anastrophe.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 43
    • […] thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a...1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon

anastrophe meaning in Tamil and Tagalog

anastrophe in Tamil

தலைகீழ்மாற்றம்

anastrophe in Tagalog

switching in the syntactical order of words
kabaligtaran

Synonyms of anastrophe

Forms of anastrophe

pluralanastrophes

Origin of anastrophe

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

Words that rhyme with anastrophe

Questions about anastrophe

What does anastrophe mean?
Anastrophe means unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
What is anastrophe in Tamil?
Anastrophe in Tamil is தலைகீழ்மாற்றம். See Anastrophe meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is anastrophe?
Anastrophe is a noun.
How do you pronounce anastrophe?
Anastrophe is pronounced /əˈnæstɹəfi/ (UK).
What is the plural of anastrophe?
The plural of anastrophe is anastrophes.

Words near anastrophe in the dictionary

  1. Anastos
  2. Anastoses
  3. anastral
  4. anastrazole
  5. anastrephin
  6. anastrophe
  7. anastrophes
  8. anastrophic
  9. anastrozole
  10. anastylosis
  11. anastylotic

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