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noun
The use of a grammatical modifier which syntactically modifies an item other than the one it belongs to semantically, generating a connection between the two.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: rhetoric, uncountable
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noun
A phrase in which this occurs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, rhetoric
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noun
reversal of the syntactic relation of two words (as in `her beauty's face')
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: rhetorical device
History
From Latin hypallagē, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ὑπαλλαγή (hupallagḗ), from ὑπό (hupó, “hypo-”) + ἀλλάσσειν (allássein, “to exchange”).
Across languages
12 source translations are retained for this English entry.
