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hypallage
[ hi-pal-uh-jee, hahy- ]
noun
, Rhetoric.
- the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”
hypallage
/ haɪˈpæləˌdʒiː /
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
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypallage1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of hypallage1
C16: via Late Latin from Greek hupallagē interchange, from hypo- + allassein to exchange
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Example Sentences
The epithet is, by hypallage, transferred from the person to the dew or cold sweat which ‘dips’ or moistens his body.
From Project Gutenberg
The joining it with 'beach' seems an instance of the figure called Hypallage.
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Sterili is transferred by hypallage from litus; siccum serves no purpose beyond providing a balancing epithet.
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