Antiptosis
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Antiptosis (from Ancient Greek ανταλλαγή (antallagḗ) 'exchange of' and περίπτωση (períptōsē) 'case') is a rhetorical device. Specifically, it is a type of enallage (the substitution of grammatically different but semantically equivalent constructions) in which one grammatical case is substituted for another.[1]
In English, this technique is used only with pronouns, and is more effective with languages that use inflected nouns, such as Greek and Latin.
One form of the device is to replace the conjunction and with the preposition of, thus changing the case of the second noun from a case agreeing with the first noun to the genitive case.
This form of antiptosis is related to the technique hendiadys; it is more or less the opposite of it. It is also related to the technique hypallage, except that the governing noun becomes the adjective instead of the noun in regimen.[clarification needed]
