Hypallage

[hai'pælәgi:]

Definition

(noun.) reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face').

Typed by Lesley--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. Thus Virgil says, "dare classibus austros," to give the winds to the fleets, instead of dare classibus austris, to give the fleets to the winds.

Edited by Diana

Definition

n. (rhet.) a figure in which the relations of things in a sentence are mutually interchanged but without obscuring the sense.

Typed by Blanche