Siamese twins or binomials are pairs of expressions which are often conjoined. For example:
- back and forth
- ebb and flow
- near and far
- better or worse
- do or die
Is there is a name for the rhetorical device of swapping their order? For example:
- forth and back
- flow and ebb
- far and near
- worse or better
- die or do
One might call this device reversal or inversion, but I am wondering if there’s a specific name. I couldn’t find anything in Landman’s Handlist of Rhetorical Terms or on web lists.
EDIT: I don’t think it counts as epanados since the words have not already (by hypothesis) been introduced in their standard order.
Answer
Consider
a generic term for changing the normal or expected order of words.
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