Humanities CLEP Prep Practice Exam

What is the literary device known as anastrophe?

1. The use of a metaphor to describe an abstract concept

2. The use of a word different from the one that is normally used

3. The reordering of conventional word order

4. The inversion of the normal order of the parts of a sentence

The correct answer is: The reordering of conventional word order

Anastrophe is a literary device that involves unconventional word order in a sentence. This means that the order in which words are typically structured is changed for effect. Option A is incorrect because that describes a metaphor, which is not directly related to anastrophe. Option B is incorrect because it describes a different literary device called metonymy, which is also not directly related to anastrophe. Option D is incorrect because it describes the inversion of sentence parts, which is a broader concept that does not specifically pertain to the use of anastrophe. Therefore, the correct answer is C as it accurately defines anastrophe as the reordering of conventional word order in a sentence.