单词 | enallage |
释义 | enallage (once / 274868 pages) n WORD FAMILY enallage USAGE EXAMPLESBoccaccio constantly uses this irregular form of enallage, especially in dialogue. Payne, John, The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio(2010) In animated narrative, however, the present tense is often substituted for the past, by the figure enallage. Brown, Goold, The Grammar of English Grammars(2010) This mode of expression may be referred to the figure enallage, in which one word or one modification is used for an other. Brown, Goold, The Grammar of English Grammars(2010) n a substitution of part of speech or gender or number or tense etc. (e.g., editorial `we' for `I') Hyper rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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