anastrophe /ə-ˈnas-trə-(ˌ)fē/ - inversion of the usual syntactical order of words for rhetorical effect
Was sure I'd entered this word somewhere in this blog before. Didn't find it on a search though, so here it is, from today's Dictionary Devil puzzle. New to me, the related:
hysteron proteron /ˌhi-stə-ˌrän-ˈprä-tə-ˌrän, -tə-rən-ˈprä-tə-rən, -ˈprȯ-/ - a figure of speech consisting of the reversal of a natural or rational order (as in "then came the thunder and the lightning")
I love the etymology: Late Latin, from Greek, literally, (the) later earlier, (the) latter first
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