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'''Enallage''' ({{IPAc-en|ɛ|ˈ|n|æ|l|ə|dʒ|iː}}; {{lang-langx|el|ἐναλλαγή}}, ''enallagḗ'', "interchange") is one type of [[Scheme (linguisticsrhetoric)|scheme]] of rhetorical [[figure of speech| figures of speech]] which is used to refer to the use of [[Grammatical tense|tense]], [[Lexeme|form]], or [[person]] for a grammatically incorrect counterpart.<ref name="en1">Silva Rhetoricae (2006). [http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/lit_terms_E.html Enallage] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060211082357/http://guweb2.gonzaga.edu/faculty/wheeler/lit_terms_E.html |date=2006-02-11 }}</ref><ref name="Dupriez1991">{{cite book|author=Bernard Marie Dupriez|title=A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z|url=https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoflite0000dupr|url-access=registration|year=1991|publisher=University of Toronto Press|isbn=978-0-8020-6803-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryoflite0000dupr/page/154 154]}}</ref>

One use of enallage is to give a sentence improper form quite deliberately. [[Shakespeare]] wrote, "‘Is there not '''wars'''? Is there not employment?’" ([[Henry IV, Part 2|2nd Henry IV]], I, ii) In these cases, he uses enallage to achieve [[parallelism (grammar)|parallel structure]]. [[Lord Byron|Byron]] stated, "The idols are broke in the temple of [[Baal]]." Here he used the [[past tense]] form of ''break'' instead of the [[past participle]], ''broken,'' which should have been used. In the opening lines of the ''Aeneid'', Virgil speaks of the “walls of lofty Rome.” Daniel Mendelsohn, in ''The New Yorker'', cites this as an example of enallage: "The poet knew what he was doing—'lofty walls' is about architecture, but 'lofty Rome' is about empire.,"<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/10/15/is-the-aeneid-a-celebration-of-empire-or-a-critique|title=Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique?|last=Mendelsohn|first=Daniel|date=October 15, 2018|website=The New Yorker}}</ref> though arguably this figure could be considered ''[[hypallage]],'' the transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition.

[[Category:RhetoricalFigures techniquesof speech]]