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HYPALLAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hypallage mean? 

HYPALLAGE (noun)
  The noun HYPALLAGE has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: HYPALLAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HYPALLAGE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in 'her beauty's face')

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("hypallage" is a kind of...):

rhetorical device (a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance))


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