What is "anastrophe"

Anastrophe \A*nas"tro*phe\, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn up or back; ? + ? to turn.] (Rhet. & Gram.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed.

"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 ana "back" (see ana-) + strephein "to turn" (see strophe).

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

n. the reversal of the normal order of words [syn: inversion]

Anastrophe (from the , anastrophē, "a turning back or about") is a figure of speech in which the syntactically correct order of subject, verb and object is changed. For example, the usual English order of subject, object and verb might be changed to object-subject-verb, as in saying "potatoes I like" to mean "I like potatoes."