enallage
enallage is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- adumbrate
- adumbration
- allegorical
- allegorize
- allegory
- allude
- allusion
- allusive
- anagoge
- anagogical
- analogy
- apologue
- application
- apply
- association
- catachresis
- catachrestical
- colloquial
- colloquialism
- employ
- exaggeration
- express
- fable
- figurative
- figure
- forth
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- ironical
- irony
- metalepsis
- metaphor
- metaphorical
- metonymy
- oneself
- parable
- parabolic
- personification
- personify
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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