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| a·nas·tro·phe [ ə nástrəfee ] |
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change in order: an alteration of the normal order of words or phrases in a grammatical construction, usually for rhetorical effect. Coleridge's "The helmsman steered; the ship moved on; yet never a breeze up blew" ends with an anastrophe.
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| [Mid-16th century. < Greek, "a turning back, inversion" < stroph-, stem of strephein "to turn"] |
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