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From Latin "hypallassein" or Greek "hypallage"
Other times, the modifier describes a
different noun than the one used.
This type of hypallage is called a transferred epithet.
"Airsick bags"
"The careless remark hurt her feelings."
"He danced the happy road home."
Usually, two words or phrases are interchanged...
*Personification*
“His coward lips did from their colour fly.”
-Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
The color did fly from the coward’s lips
"The trumpet's Tuscan blare"
-Virgil
The Tuscan trumpet's blare
"A mind is a terrible thing to waste."
To waste a mind is a terrible thing
A hypallage is the deliberate rearrangement of words in a sentence, from a logical order to an illogical order, for the effect of emphasizing one word or phrase. Sometimes two or more words are interchanged, other times modifiers are misapplied.
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