Enallage; or, Exchange Exchange of one Word for another
E-nal´-la-gee, ἐναλλαγή, an exchange, from ἐναλλάσσειν (enallassein), to exchange, from ἐν (en), in, and ἀλλάσσειν (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 (ἐνάλλαξις, e-nal-lax´-is), from another part of the same verb as Enallage, and with the same meaning, an exchange .
Also ALLŒGOSIS (ἀλλοίωσις, al-loi-ô’-sis), a change, or alteration, from ἀλλοιόω (alloioô), to make different, to change.
Enallage consists of the following forms:
Antimereia ,
Antiptosis ,
Heteroµsis, and
Hypallage´, which will be considered in order:-