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What (who) is hypallage - definition
ALSO KNOWN AS TRANSFERRED EPITHET
Transferred epithet
Hypallage
·noun 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.
hypallage
[h??'pal?d?i:, h?-]
¦ noun Rhetoric a transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition, e.g. in the sentence 'Melissa shook her doubtful curls'.
Origin
C16: via late L. from Gk hupallage, from hupo 'under' + allassein 'to exchange'.
Hypallage
Hypallage (; from the , hypallagḗ, "interchange, exchange") is a figure of speech in which the syntactic relationship between two terms is interchanged,Webster's Third New International Dictionary or – more frequently – a modifier is syntactically linked to an item other than the one that it modifies semantically. The latter type of hypallage, typically resulting in the implied personification of an inanimate or abstract noun, is also called a transferred epithet.
Wikipedia
Hypallage
Hypallage (; from the Greek: ὑπαλλαγή, hypallagḗ, "interchange, exchange") is a figure of speech in which the syntactic relationship between two terms is interchanged, or – more frequently – a modifier is syntactically linked to an item other than the one that it modifies semantically. The latter type of hypallage, typically resulting in the implied personification of an inanimate or abstract noun, is also called a transferred epithet.
