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Enallage

A figure of speech in which one part of speech is used for another, or one grammatical form is substituted for another, such as present for past or singular for plural.

Pope uses an adjective for an adverb:

"Those move easiest who have learned to dance"

Byron uses a past tense for a past participle:

"The idols are broke in the temple of Baal"

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