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hypallage

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

How To Use hypallage In A Sentence

  • The English index covers topics and authors; as a sample I give four consecutive entries: hunting, Hyginus, hymn-language and hypallage.
  • This paper explores into the theoretical basis of relevance by discussing the usage of four rhetorical devices in collocation variation, namely metaphor, hypallage, zeugma and pun.
  • This exhibition entitled Hypallage attempts to categorize and exhibit the creations, which resorts to post-modern concepts and modes, in the history of Chinese contemporary art.
  • I've also left out extremely rare or poetic devices (like hypallage) and terms referring to common linguistic errors (like anacoluthon).
  • It is easier to give examples than to explain hypallage.
  • Hyphens and adverbs partake of this concatenation of the style that ends up creating hypallages.
  • Just as in Debussy's Preludes, these epigraphs are also metaphors, hypallages and paradigms that can be interpreted ad libitum.
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