anastrophe
Sign in to saveAnastrophe (from the , anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.
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Anastrophe (from the , anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.
Anastrophe is a hyponym of the antimetabole, where anastrophe only transposes one word in a sentence. For example, subject–verb–object ("I like potatoes") might be changed to object–subject–verb ("potatoes I like").
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