anastrophe

• “One discovers numerous examples in which De Luca uses such rhetorical devices as anadiplosis or the repetition of a word at the end of a clause or at the beginning of another; anaphora or the repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive clauses; or anastrophe which is the inversion of the usual word order within a sentence.”

  The Huffington Post: Mark Axelrod: The Day Before Happiness

• “It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a trick he kept attempting, like dice.”

  Spring « Unknowing

• “Into the valley of anastrophe rode the six hundred.”

  VERTKRIEG

• “The intervening clause, kata ` te ` n prote'ran anastrophe ` n, concerning the former conversation, belongs to the verb and not to the following noun.”

  A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians

• “Other details of Time's style, including strung-out attributive adjectives (bahuvrihi, to linguists), puns (paronomasia), and inverted word order (anastrophe) are also described in the Introduction, which one could only wish were more detailed.”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1

• “In Byron's Don Juan occurs an exemplary anastrophe: "All, when life is new,/Commence with feelings warm, and prospects high ...”

  Verbatim: VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1

• “Sorensen and Kennedy developed the “Ask not” anastrophe from similar statements made by JFK during the campaign, which in turn borrowed from Kennedy’s study of the history of political rhetoric.”

  Simon & Schuster: TEAR DOWN THIS WALL

• “The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith

• “Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense thus the foreign-born baby was denounced and welcomed, the circumstances lamented and the mother congratulated, in a breath, all under cover of the happiest misunderstanding, as effective as the cabalism of Prospero's wand among the Neapolitan mariners, by the skilful Irish development on a grand scale of the rhetorical figure anastrophe, or a turning about and about.”

  Celt and Saxon — Complete

• “* kata ` te ` n prote'ran anastrophe ` n: [1769] 1”

  A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians

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