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April 28[edit]

Order of sentence, putting one element in the front[edit]

In the sentence:

"My child didn't want to eat the soup. And the soup, she did not eat."

Is there any name for the inverted order of the second sentence? --Llaanngg (talk) 23:59, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Topic fronting. Loraof (talk) 00:14, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Chiasmus, in case you meant the overall stylistic effect Asmrulz (talk) 11:55, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Anastrophe the natural word order inverts, a sentence more interesting to make. Gandalf61 (talk) 12:53, 29 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]