When you strip a phrase or sentence of nonessential words that the audience expects or with which they are so familiar that they will mentally fill them in, you are using inversion.

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Inversion involves changing the order of words in a sentence, such as starting with the predicate instead of the subject. Stripping nonessential words is called ellipsis.

When You Strip a Phrase or Sentence of Nonessential Words