"inversion of usual word order," 1570s, from Greek anastrophe "a turning back, a turning upside down," from anastrephein "to turn up or back, to turn upside down," from a [..]

Inverted order of words or events as a rhetorical scheme. Anastrophe is specifically a type of hyperbaton in which the adjective appears after the noun when we expect to find the adjective before the [..]

transposition of normal word order; most often found in Latin in the case of prepositions and the words they control. Anastrophe is a form of hyperbaton. *The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew. Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner *Isdem in oppidis, Cicero *Demosthenes,

(n) the reversal of the normal order of words

transposition or inversion of normal word order; a type of hyperbaton. "Once upon a midnight dreary..." -- Edgar Allan Poe. "The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a bree [..]

 The inversion of the normal word for effect. A change in the usual order in which words appear in order to achieve an effect. The normal sequence of words in English is subject followed by verb, and [..]

(rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

An ordinary English sentence goes a little somethin' like this: subject, then verb, then object. When you intentionally switch that order up, that's anastrophe.As a figure of speech, anastro [..]