Enallage; or, Exchange
Enallage; or, Exchange
Exchange of one Word for another
E-nal-la-gee, , an exchange, from (enallassein), to exchange, from (en), in, and (allassein), to change.
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 (q.v. [Note: Which see.] ) 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.
It is also called ENALLAXIS (, e-nal-lax-is), from another part of the same verb as Enallage, and with the same meaning, an exchange.
Also ALLGOSIS (, al-loi–sis), a change, or alteration, from (alloio), to make different, to change.
Enallage consists of the following forms:
Antimereia,
Antiptosis,
Heterosis, and
Hypallage, which will be considered in order:-