Figure Name | enallage |
Source | Silva Rhetoricae (http://humanities.byu.edu/rhetoric/Silva.htm);Quintilian 8.6.28 (but unnamed); Peacham (1577) H3v-H4r; Putt. (1589) 182 ("enallage," "figure of exchange") ; JG Smith (1665) ("enallage"); Macbeth (1876); Holmes (1806) ("enallage"); De Mille (1882) ("antimeria," "enallage"); Raub (1888) 222; Bullinger (1898) ("enallage; or, exchange") |
Earliest Source | |
Synonyms | allage, figure of exchange, exchange, enallaxia, alloegosis |
Etymology | Gk. "an exchange" from enallassein "to exchange" from en "in" and allassien "to change" |
Type | Scheme |
Linguistic Domain |
Syntactic |
Definition |
1. The substitution of grammatically different but semantically equivalent constructions. 2. A change of order: a figure whereby the number or gender, mood, &c. are put one for another.; Enallage, Ordinis permutaetio, a change of order; derived from [enallatto] permuto, to change one thing for another; or from [enallos] inversus & praeposterus, turnd upside down and disorderly. A figure whereby the Number or Gender, Mood, Person, or Tense are changed, or put one for another. (JG Smith) 3. Enallage is the figure we proceed with - of very great vale; the use of one part of speech, or of one modification of a park of speech, for another. (Macbeth) 4. Enallage doth alter person, tense, Mood, gender, number, on the least pretence. (Holmes) 5. 129. ANTIMERIA-ENALLAGE. 6. "a change of words. The two most common forms of enallage are--the use of one part of speech for another… the use of one case for another." (Raub) 7. Exchange of one Word for another... Enallage is a figure of grammar; and consists of an exchange of words, or a substitution of one word for another. It differs from Metonymy in that Metonymy is the exchange or substitution of one noun for another noun: while Enallage is a change of one part of speech for another (Antimeria); or one tense, mood, person, or number for another (Heterosis); or one case for another (Antiptosis), but never of one noun for another. (Bullinger, 496) |
Example |
1. "I consumed the triple-decker pizza" (active verb) 2. Psal, 14.1. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God: They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, &c. See Exod. 20.2. Prov. 1.11. Matth. 1.21. Here the singular is put for the plural number; or on the contrary. (JG Smith) 3. So Shakespeare has "Carthage-queen" for Carthaginian queen. (Macbeth) 3. "Star of morn and even, 4. Alexander fights, for Alexander fought. (Holmes) 6. "[1]'The winds blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle.' [2] 'A President than whom none was more beloved.'" (Raub) |
Kind Of | |
Part Of | Substitution |
Related Figures | Figures of Substitution, Figures of Grammar, alleotheta, antiptosis, anthimeria, figures of syntax |
Notes | |
Confidence | Unconfident |
Last Editor | Ioanna Malton |
Confidence | Unconfident |
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