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Webster 1913 Edition

Hypallage

Hy-pal′la-ge

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Noun.
[L., fr. Gr. [GREEK], prop., interchange, exchange, fr, [GREEK] to interchange; [GREEK] under + [GREEK] to change.]
(Gram.)
A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. 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.
The
hypallage
, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language.
Landor.

Webster 1828 Edition

Hypallage

HYPAL'LAGE

,
Noun.
hypal'largy. [Gr. change, to change.]
In grammar, a figure consisting of mutual change of cases. Thus in Virgil, dare classibus austros, for dare classes austris.
Hypallage is a species of hyperbaton.

Definition 2024

hypallage

hypallage

English

Noun

hypallage ‎(plural hypallages)

  1. (rhetoric, grammar) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as literary device.


Translations

Synonyms

  • transferred epithet

See also

Etymology

From Latin hypallage, from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή ‎(hupallagḗ), from ὑπό ‎(hupó, “hypo-”) + ἀλλάσσειν ‎(allássein, “to exchange”).

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɪˈpælədʒi/, /hʌɪˈpælədʒi/
Examples (rhetoric, grammar)
  • drunk driving - it is a driver not the "driving" that is drunk
  • her beauty's face - "her" face not "her beauty's"
  • I can't knock the smirk off his stupid face - the thing that is referred to being stupid is "him", and not "his face"
  • Bottom: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was. — Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream act IV, scene 1 - Sense and sense organ are repeatedly mismatched by this comic character.

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