Alleotheta (al-le-o-the’-ta): Substitution of one case, gender, mood, number, tense, or person for another. Synonymous with enallage. [Some rhetoricians claim that alleotheta is a] general category that includes antiptosis [(a type of enallage in which one grammatical case is substituted for another)] and all forms of enallage [(the substitution of grammatically different but semantically equivalent constructions)].
I’m in the hosptial last year getting surgery when this guy in a white coat comes into my room and says: “Too bad about the foot.” I said, “What foot?” He says, “The one that’s going to foot the bill.”
I throw my water bottle at him.
Bam! Right in the head.
I yelled, “Foot that sucker” and hit the panic button by my bed.
- Post your own alleotheta on the “Comments” page!
Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu)
The Daily Trope 