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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.â€
hypallage
/ ³ó²¹ÉªËˆ±èæ±ôəˌ»åÏô¾±Ë /
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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hypallage1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of hypallage1
C16: via Late Latin from Greek ³ó³Ü±è²¹±ô±ô²¹²µÅ§ interchange, from hypo- + allassein to exchange
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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.
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Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me the hypallage in this passage.
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The epithet is, by hypallage, transferred from the person to the dew or cold sweat which ‘dips’ or moistens his body.
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The rhetoricians call this "hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another.
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