enallage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=al=la=ge

CIDE DICTIONARY

enallage, n. [L., fr. Gr. an exchange, fr. to exchange; in + to change.].

 A substitution, as of one part of speech for another, of one gender, number, case, person, tense, mode, or voice, of the same word, for another.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

enallage

Metaphor

N metaphor, figure of speech, facon de parler, way of speaking, colloquialism, phrase, figure, trope, metaphor, enallage, catachresis, metonymy, synecdoche, autonomasia, irony, figurativeness, image, imagery, metalepsis, type, anagoge, simile, personification, prosopopoeia, allegory, apologue, parable, fable, allusion, adumbration, application, exaggeration, hyperbole, association, association of ideas (analogy), metaphorical, figurative, catachrestical, typical, tralatitious, parabolic, allegorical, allusive, anagogical, ironical, colloquial, tropical, so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself, as it were, mutato nomine de te fabula narratur.