anastrophe noun anas·tro·phe ə-ˈna-strə-(ˌ)fē : inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect
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Since he was writing in Latin, he could arrange the narra-tive of each aphorism so that it began with a head that cued the reader to the content of the subse-quent narrative.
Oh the times I wish this were easier to do in English without the gymnastics.
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the author and Harvard professor
Interesting choice of word order here: author and professor instead of professor and author.
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