Anastrophe. Inversion of the natural word order Used in order to provide special emphasis because the expected emphasis is not found at the beginning.

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Anastrophe

Inversion of the natural word order Used in order to provide special emphasis because the expected emphasis is not found at the beginning of the sentence It is a type of Hyperbaton

He looked down at his feet, worn and blistered. – He looked down at his worn and blistered feet. – The adjective comes after the noun that is modified Glistens the dew upon the morning grass. – The dew glistens upon the morning grass. – Verb is placed before the subject

Two dogs, they own. – They own two dogs. – The object comes before the verb

Anastrophe Examples Quentin Tarentino's film Pulp Fiction and Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse Five are both examples of Anastrophe due to their backwards sequence of events.