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Enallage

Description:

Enallage is a rhetorical figure of speech that involves the intentional alteration of grammatical structure or the substitution of one grammatical form for another. It is commonly used to create emphasis, variety, or a desired effect within a sentence.

Examples:

1. Noun: The enallage gave the sentence a unique and memorable quality.
2. Verb: The author enallaged the sentence structure to emphasize the importance of the subject.
3. Adjective: The enallagic sentence structure added a touch of creativity to the prose.
4. Adverb: The sentence was enallagely constructed by the poet to create a sense of rhythm.

Sample Sentences:

• The enallage of pronouns in the sentence confused the readers, but it effectively conveyed the speaker's emotions.
• By employing enallage, the writer skillfully changed the tense of the sentence to create suspense.
• In this literary piece, enallage was used to capture the character's unique speaking style.

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