anastrophe
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Is anastrophe a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
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- Words With Friends Yes
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.Examples: "Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change, Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range."; "[…] 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."Synonyms: hyperbaton, inversioncountablerhetoricuncountable
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