Word of the Day - Anastrophe

[debodun]

Anastophe (noun) - the inversion of the usual order of words or clauses. For example, subject–verb–object might be changed to object–subject–verb.

Yoda in "Star Wars" spoke in anastrophes.

 

[Mizmo]

Frightened to death she was when she saw the ghost.

(best I can do)

 

[Paco Dennis]

"George Orwell’s dystopian novel 1984 plays with language to reflect society’s distorted thinking. See how he uses anastrophe to reinforce the power of physical pain:

Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
(Orwell, 1984)

Instead of writing the sentence in a standard syntax (“There are no heroes in the face of pain”), Orwell inverts the first and second halves. This allows him to repeat the word “pain” as closely as possible to its previous use and to end the sentence with the foreboding line “there are no heroes.”"

This site has famous examples of anastrophe/s "Goodies you will find if you go there"

https://examples.yourdictionary.com/anastrophe-famous-examples-in-literature-and-speech.html

 

[C50]

I finally know what my mom suffered from! Wow, words she would mix.

 

[Mizmo]

Dying of thirst she was as the morning dragged on,,,,
The pot be full.......

 

[debodun]

To the kitchen I'm going.

 

[RadishRose]

That's how Yoda speaks.

 

[jujube]

The old saying: We get too soon old and too late smart.