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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.

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1 Anastrophe

2 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

3 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

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

5 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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