A figure of speech in which grammatical structures or forms are substituted for one another, such as using a plural for a singular or vice versa.
From Greek 'enallaxis' (exchange). The rhetorical term describes the intentional swapping of grammatical forms for stylistic effect.
Poets and writers use enallage all the time—when Shakespeare writes 'the purple night' instead of 'the night is purple,' he's swapping adjective placement for dramatic effect.
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