Metaplasm

Metaplasmus (Greek μεταπλασμός, forming ') is an umbrella term for a group of rhetorical figures, in which individual words against the rules of morphology or phonology be changed for reasons of poetic sound, the compliance of meter, of lifting, the intended humor or surprise.

For the aforementioned unintended deviations from the norm of the poet or artist has a license; unlicensed deviation, however, is, in the ancient rhetoric barbarism.

Basically, one can distinguish Metaplasmen

• Of omission: elision, apheresis, syncope, apocope, systole, Synaloiphe, syneresis
• Adding: prosthesis, epenthesis, Paragoge, diastole, diaeresis
• Of exchange: metathesis
• Of replacing letters: Antistoekon

Metaplasmen are not as frequent as conscious neologisms. An example of this is the concept introduced by Jacques Derrida différance (as the same as the French word différence, difference ').

If words are in the wrong context or idiomatically used syntactically incorrect, then one speaks of solecism ( gr σολοικισμός ). The Metaplasmus is therefore a one-word figure, the solecism is based on an incorrect combination of several words. The licensed breach of idioms or syntax in classical Greek rhetoric σχῆμα, schema, scheme, or Latin figura, called.