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william,
*ahem*
anastrophe a.nas.tro.phe n.
Inversion of the normal syntactic order of words, for example: To market went she.[Gk. anastrophe]
Example:
Woolf, Virgina, Works of Virginia Woolf: The Lighthouse., Monarch Notes, 01-01-1963. "Mrs. Woolf also makes use
of other figures of speech such as anastrophe (the deliberate inversion of word order)..."
op.cit.
http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/lit_terms/index.html
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