Monday, March 6, 2023

Nine Rhetorical Devices - (9) Anastrophe

Via @culturaltutor and Wikipedia.

Anastrophe (from the Greek: ἀναστροφή, 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.

For example, subject–verb–object ("I like potatoes") might be changed to object–subject–verb ("potatoes I like").

Example:

Neither a borrower nor a lender be.
   - William Shakespeare, Hamlet.

Further example:

Something there is that doesn't love a wall...
  - Robert Frost, Mending Wall


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