enallage

• Second, perhaps this example is not an error at all, but rather a poetic deviation from standard diction in order to enhance the impact of the claim -- a trick known as enallage. —  SFist
• In his 1908 magnum pompous Grammar as a Science, B.F. Sisk defines enallage as —  SFist
• I think the difficulty in the structure may be removed by reading instead of The enallage is by no means unusual. —  The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I.
• I will further spare four out of the seven figures of less note: emphasis, enallage, and the hysteron proteron you must have; because emphasis graces Irish diction, enallage unbinds it from strict grammatical fetters, and hysteron proteron allows it sometimes to put the cart before the horse. —  Tales and Novels — Volume 04
• I leave it unaltered by way of specimen FN#613] In text "'Arús muhallíyah FN#614] He fainted thinking of the responsibilities of whoso should sit thereupon FN#615] Here is a third enallage, the King returning to the first person, the oratio directa FN#616] i.e. "by Allah;" for "Bi" (the particle proper of swearing) see viii. —  Arabian nights. English

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