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hypallage
[hi-pal-uh-jee, hahy-]
noun
the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”
hypallage
/ ɪˈæəˌː /
noun
rhetoric a figure of speech in which the natural relations of two words in a statement are interchanged, as in the fire spread the wind
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hypallage1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of hypallage1
Example Sentences
The usual explanation, which makes insertas an epithet transferred by a sort of hypallage from Luna to fenestras, is extremely violent, and makes the word little more than a repetition of se fundebat.
Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me the hypallage in this passage.
The epithet is, by hypallage, transferred from the person to the dew or cold sweat which ‘dips’ or moistens his body.
The rhetoricians call this "hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another.
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