Schemes of Unusual or Inverted Order

Question 1

— the inversion of natural word order, often with the
purpose of surprising the reader, gaining attention, or (most often) emphasizing certain
words (those at the beginning and the end of the sentence).

“Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”

Answer 1

Anastrophe

Question 2

— insertion of some verbal unit in a position that interrupts the normal
syntactical flow of the sentence, thereby sending the thought off on an important tangent that
has pronounced rhetorical effect. Often involves literal parentheses ( ), but not always; there
are other ways to insert a comment into a sentence. One might use commas, or dashes, for
example.

“Those two spots are among the darkest of our whole civilization— pardon me, our
whole culture (an important distinction, I’ve heard), which might sound like a hoax,
or a contradiction, but that (by contradiction, I mean) is how the world moves: not
like an arrow, but a boomerang.”

Answer 2

Parenthesis