ENALLAGE  

錯用詞尾法 ACYROLOGIA in the form of deliberate wrong use of inflections on words.

Enallage is the deliberate use of one case, person, gender, number, tense or mood for another.

Hypernym
  • ACYROLOGIAANOMIA or VITIUM in the form of a manifestly and deliberately wrong use of a word.Use of a manifestly wrong word as a deliberate rhetorical device. Contrast MALAPROPISM which focusses on the maladroit demonstration of lack of proper learning and education precisely through the effort to show off such education or learning.
    • ANOMIARHETORICAL STYLE of breaking norms, conventions or regular patterns of a language.
      • RHETORICAL STYLE體裁詞格 RHETORICAL DEVICE which is mainly concerned with matters of style of presentation rather than distribution of expressions or semantic structure.
Miriam 61

EX: Never was waves nor wind more violent. Shak. Per. 4.1.60

Evidently absent in Chinese.

  • Gradus. Les procedes litteraires (Dictionnaire) Collection 10/18 ( DUPRIEZ 1984) p. 175
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