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 I think anastrophe is the literary criticism/rhetoric people's name, while inversion and fronting are the grammarians' terms.
From The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar, pg. 163:
fronting
The unusual placing of a sentence element at the beginning of the sentence.
English sentences typically begin with a subject, but other functional elements -- object, complement, adverbial, and even part of the verb phrase -- can be placed at the beginning in order to mark the THEME, e.g.
Loud music I do not like (fronted object)
Horrible I call it (fronted complement)
After half an hour we walked out (fronted adverbial)
Walked out, we did. (fronted verb)
The entry for inversion (pg. 212-213) is longer than I care to copy out, but the beginning says:
inversion
The reversal of the usual word order.
The term is particularly used in relation to subjects and verbs.
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