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1Anastrophe — is a figure of speech involving an inversion of the ordinary Western order of words; for example, saying echoed the hills to mean the hills echoed . In English, with its settled word order, departure from the expected word order emphasizes the… …
2Anastrophe — A*nas tro*phe, n. [Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn up or back; ? + ? to turn.] (Rhet. & Gram.) An inversion of the natural order of words; as, echoed the hills, for, the hills echoed. [1913 Webster] …
3anastrophe — noun Etymology: Medieval Latin, from Greek anastrophē, literally, turning back, from anastrephein to turn back, from ana + strephein to turn Date: circa 1550 inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect compare hysteron …
4anastrophe — a•nas•tro•phe [[t]əˈnæs trə fi[/t]] n. rht reversal of the usual order of words for rhetorical effect • Etymology: 1570–80; < Gk: turning back …
5Hyperbaton — is a figure of speech in which words that naturally belong together are separated from each other for emphasis or effect. This kind of unnatural or rhetorical separation is possible to a much greater degree in highly inflected languages, where… …
6inversion — /in verr zheuhn, sheuhn/, n. 1. an act or instance of inverting. 2. the state of being inverted. 3. anything that is inverted. 4. Rhet. reversal of the usual or natural order of words; anastrophe. 5. Gram. any change from a basic word order or… …
7Glossary of rhetorical terms — Rhetorical Theory is a subject rife with jargon and special terminology. This page explains commonly used rhetorical terms in alphabetical order. The brief definitions here are intended to serve as a quick reference rather than an in depth… …
8List of characters in the Banjo-Kazooie series — This is a list of characters from the Banjo Kazooie series of video games. Main characters Banjo Banjo is a rare anthropomorphic brown honey [ [http://web.archive.org/web/19990220041733/www.rareware.com/recent/games/banjo/castlist/ Rarewhere:… …
9Writing style — is the manner in which a writer addresses a matter in prose, a manner which reveals the writer s personality, or voice. It is particularly evident in the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of thought. The… …
10Pericles' Funeral Oration — is a famous speech from Thucydides History of the Peloponnesian War . [Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War , 2.34 2.46. ] The speech was delivered by Pericles, an eminent Athenian politician, at the end of the first year of the… …
