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THE Oxford English Dictionary tells
us this word came into use in the English language in the mid 16th century.
It is taken from the Greek ("turning back"). It means the inversion
or unusual order of words and clauses. George Lucas'
Yoda
speaks in anastrophe: "Ready are you? My own counsel will I keep
on who is to be trained!" Old English sounds riddled with anastrophe
to speakers of Modern English...."him God sent to folk for solace"...(lines
13-14 Beowulf, translated by John Porter).
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