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HYPALLAGECombining two examples of hyperbaton or anastrophe when the reversed elements are not grammatically or syntactically parallel. It is easier to give examples than to explain hypallage. Virgil writes, & [..]
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HYPALLAGE("exchanging") transferred epithet; grammatical agreement of a word with another word which it does not logically qualify. More common in poetry. *Exegi monumentum aere perennius regalique situ pyramidum altius, Horace, Odes III.30
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HYPALLAGE(n) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
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HYPALLAGEN F rhetorical figure; interchanged relations between things
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HYPALLAGEinterchange of two elements in a phrase or clause from the order in which they would normally appear. "A mind is a terrible thing to waste," instead of "To waste a mind is a terrible [..]
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HYPALLAGE
(rhetoric,grammar) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as literary device.
literary device
* Catalan: ca|hip [..]
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