n. Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. An inversion of the natural order of words.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. In rhetoric and grammar, an inversion of the usual order of words: as, “echoed the hills” for “the hills echoed.”
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n. the reversal of the normal order of words
Word Usage
"One discovers numerous examples in which De Luca uses such rhetorical devices as anadiplosis or the repetition of a word at the end of a clause or at the beginning of another; anaphora or the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses; or anastrophe which is the inversion of the usual word order within a sentence."