Anastrophe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words; for example, "Matter too soft a lasting mark to bear” ( Alexander Pope).
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • 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.”
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the reversal of the normal order of words
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract