(1) The use of repetition, compound words, and anastrophe are key stylistic traits of Circle and are found throughout the collection of historic manuscripts that inspired it.(2) That grandness is achieved with two schemes: anastrophe (inversion of normal word order) and antithesis (juxtaposition of contrasting ideas).(3) Old English sounds riddled with anastrophe to speakers of Modern English.(4) He also engages in that time-tested rhetorical device, the ad hominem attack, through an anastrophe .(5) The Dryden translation is a little harder to get into with its deliberate archaisms and anastrophes , but once you do it's very rhythmic and compelling.
