noun Rhetoric.
- inversion of the usual order of words.
noun
- rhetoric another term for inversion (def. 3)
“inversion of usual word order,” 1570s, from Greek anastrophe “a turning back, a turning upside down,” from anastrephein “to turn up or back, to turn upside down,” from ana “back” (see ana-) + strephein “to turn” (see strophe).