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