Anastropheとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἀναστροφή (anastrophḗ), from ἀνα- (ana-, “up”) + στρέφω (stréphō, “to turn”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /əˈnæstɹəfi/
• ハイフネーション: anas‧tro‧phe
• 韻: -æstɹəfi

名詞

anastrophe (countable and uncountable, plural anastrophes)

1. (rhetoric) Unusual word order, often involving an inversion of the usual pattern of the sentence.

   Synonyms: hyperbaton, inversion

   Hypernym: word order

   • [1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 43:

     Anastrophe often, by a pleasing change,
     Gracefuly puts last the words that first should range.]

   • 1910, George Meredith, chapter XII, in Celt and Saxon‎:

     […] 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.

関連する語

• anastrophic
• anastrophism

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