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Reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
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hypallage
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Hypallage (; from the , hypallagḗ , "interchange, exchange") or transferred epithet is a literary device that can be described as an abnormal, unexpected change of two segments in a sentence.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context rhetoric grammar English) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as literary device.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hypallage \Hy*pal"la*ge\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, prop., interchange, exchange, fr, ? to interchange; ? under + ? to change.] (Gram.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. Thus Virgil says, ``dare classibus ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
Usage examples of hypallage.
To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists— and so on, to infinity.
To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists—.
To each memorable image you attach a thought, a label, a category, a piece of the cosmic furniture, syllogisms, an enormous sorites, chains of apothegms, strings of hypallages, rosters of zeugmas, dances of hysteron proteron, apophantic logoi, hierarchic stoichea, processions of equinoxes and parallaxes, herbaria, genealogies of gymnosophists- and so on, to infinity.