单词 | enallage |
例句 | One favorite device, for instance, is called “enallage,” in which an adjective is pointedly displaced from the noun it should, logically, modify. Is the Aeneid a Celebration of Empire—or a Critique? 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z Perhaps Mr. Held sought to employ poetical enallage, but even so, the adjective does not correspond with "slowly"; besides, the use of enallage in prose is at best highly questionable. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Le Moyne thinks that we need have no difficulty in assuming such an enallage. Christology of the Old Testament: And a Commentary on the Messianic Predictions. Vol. 2 Boccaccio constantly uses this irregular form of enallage, especially in dialogue. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio And when all men shall have adopted this enallage, the fault indeed will be banished, or metamorphosed, but with it will go an other sixth part of every English conjugation. The Grammar of English Grammars Mr. Payne complains of the obscurity of the original owing to abuse of the figure enallage; but I find them explicit enough, referring to some debauched elder after the type of Abu Nowas. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 In animated narrative, however, the present tense is often substituted for the past, by the figure enallage. The Grammar of English Grammars This mode of expression may be referred to the figure enallage, in which one word or one modification is used for an other. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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