Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed. Anastrophe is a hyponym of the antimetabole, where anastrophe only transposes one word in a sentence.
Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed. Anastrophe is a hyponym of the antimetabole, where anastrophe only transposes one word in a sentence.
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