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

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1. (noun) hypallage
a figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to other. 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

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