Education English | Anastrophe | According to Etherton (1973:209), “anastrophe is change in the normal order of words and it is used to emphasize a particular word”. One of the examples of anastrophe is;
a. Smoking he absolutely loathes and in rushed my mother-in-law”.
b. False was the news.
c. Smart you are.
d. He's a man happy
All of the examples above are not in correct order. A typical anastrophe is created by putting an adjective after a noun rather than before it or adverb after a verb (Straker, 2010). The fourth example, “He‟s a man happy” instead of “He‟s a happy man”. Another way is to put the verb at the end of the sentence like the third example, “smart you are”, to mean “you are smart”. Furthermore, Straker (2001) states that anastrophe has a slightly foreign and archaic feel and is common in poetry.
a. Smoking he absolutely loathes and in rushed my mother-in-law”.
b. False was the news.
c. Smart you are.
d. He's a man happy
All of the examples above are not in correct order. A typical anastrophe is created by putting an adjective after a noun rather than before it or adverb after a verb (Straker, 2010). The fourth example, “He‟s a man happy” instead of “He‟s a happy man”. Another way is to put the verb at the end of the sentence like the third example, “smart you are”, to mean “you are smart”. Furthermore, Straker (2001) states that anastrophe has a slightly foreign and archaic feel and is common in poetry.
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