How To Use anastrophe In A Sentence
- It is hard to judge a cliche so far away in time, but ‘racing lambs’ strikes one as a non-description, and with ‘fair their fling’ you wonder if anastrophe is just a trick he kept attempting, like dice. Spring « Unknowing
- The use of repetition, compound words, and anastrophe are key stylistic traits of Circle and are found throughout the collection of historic manuscripts that inspired it.
- The decision of Government to send reinforcements to Ireland was mentioned as a prelude to the information from Vienna of the birth of a son to the Princess Nikolas: and then; having conjoined the two entirely heterogeneous pieces of intelligence, the composer adroitly interfused them by a careless transposition of the prelude and the burden that enabled him to play ad libitum on regrets and rejoicings; by which device the lord of Earlsfont might be offered condolences while the lady could express her strong contentment, inasmuch as he deplored the state of affairs in the sister island, and she was glad of a crisis concluding a term of suspense 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. Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith
- The Dryden translation is a little harder to get into with its deliberate archaisms and anastrophes, but once you do it's very rhythmic and compelling.
- The intervening clause, kata ` te ` n prote'ran anastrophe ` n, concerning the former conversation, belongs to the verb and not to the following noun. A Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians
- Anastrophe occurs chiefly with dissyllabic prepositions. New Latin Grammar
- Other details of Time's style, including strung-out attributive adjectives (bahuvrihi, to linguists), puns (paronomasia), and inverted word order (anastrophe) are also described in the Introduction, which one could only wish were more detailed. VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 1
- Into the valley of anastrophe rode the six hundred. VERTKRIEG
- He also engages in that time-tested rhetorical device, the ad hominem attack, through an anastrophe.
- That grandness is achieved with two schemes: anastrophe (inversion of normal word order) and antithesis (juxtaposition of contrasting ideas).
