Definition of Anastraphe

Definition of Anastraphe

||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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

a switching in the syntactical order of words

- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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