noun
- plural of hypallage; rhetorical figures of speech in which the natural relations of words in a sentence are interchanged
Usage: literary; rhetoric
Examples
- The poet employed several hypallages to create striking imagery.
- Students of rhetoric learn to identify hypallages in classical literature.
- The phrase ‘rainy night’ contains one of the simplest hypallages.
- Shakespeare’s works contain numerous examples of hypallages.
- The professor explained how hypallages transfer epithets between words.