Sunday, May 8, 2011

Anthimeria

The Technical Stuff:
A rhetorical term for the use of one part of speech (or word class) for another. In grammatical studies, anthimeria is known as a functional shift or conversion.

Example:
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought.
(Hamlet, III.i)

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