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hypallage
[ hi-pal-uh-jee, hahy- ]
/ hɪˈpæl ə dʒi, haɪ- /
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noun Rhetoric.
the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty's face” for “her face's beauty.”
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Words nearby hypallage
hypacusis, hypaesthesia, hypaethral, hypalbuminemia, hypalgesia, hypallage, hypamnios, hypanakinesis, hypanthium, hypaspist, Hypatia
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How to use hypallage in a sentence
The epithet is, by hypallage, transferred from the person to the dew or cold sweat which ‘dips’ or moistens his body.
Milton's Comus|John MiltonThe joining it with 'beach' seems an instance of the figure called Hypallage.
Sterili is transferred by hypallage from litus; siccum serves no purpose beyond providing a balancing epithet.
British Dictionary definitions for hypallage
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
Word Origin for hypallage
C16: via Late Latin from Greek hupallagē interchange, from hypo- + allassein to exchange
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