Hypallage

Word HYPALLAGE
Character 9
Hyphenation hy pal la ge
Pronunciations /hɪˈpælədʒi/

Definitions and meanings of "Hypallage"

What do we mean by hypallage?

(grammar) A construction in which a modifier with meaning associated with one word appears grammatically applied to another, often used as a literary device.

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The word "hypallage" in example sentences

"hypallage," because one word as it were is substituted for another. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

The expression, ` pains and conception, 'is to be taken by the figure hypallage, [202] for the pains which they endure in consequence of conception. ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

Ethiopians of Cush, dwelling in tents, the habitation for the inhabitant, by a hypallage. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)

This kind of extreme hypallage, with the true modified noun not expressed, does not however seem to be Ovid's practice, although found in the Silver poets: Statius _Theb_ IX 425 'deceptaque fulmina' means ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

PORRECTA = is equivalent to _longa_, and belongs to _secunda_ (_sc_ syllaba) by hypallage. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

_Sterili_ is transferred by hypallage from _litus_; _siccum_ serves no purpose beyond providing a balancing epithet. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

= Professor R.J. Tarrant points out to me the hypallage in this passage. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

SIDERA = = _inter sidera conuexi caeli_; the hypallage adds further to the elevation of the passage. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

There is another instance of hypallage with _nomen mite_ (a different sense of _mitis_ being used) at _Fast_ V ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

_ The usual explanation, which makes _insertas_ an epithet transferred by a sort of hypallage from _Luna_ to _fenestras_, is extremely violent, and makes the word little more than a repetition of _se fundebat_. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

Here there is a slight hypallage: the offence lies in the fact that the conqueror dares to credit his false gods with his triumph, and not, as the words would literally signify, in that with which he credits them. ❋ Jean Baptiste Racine (1669)

The epithet is, by hypallage, transferred from the person to the dew or cold sweat which ❋ John Milton (1641)

To assist readers who may not be acquainted with such exotic figures as hypallage and zeugma, we have conscientiously annotated the Pythons 'mini-disquisition with links to definitions and additional examples in our epithet's golden transfer, for those who fall willingly into the arms of the metaphor, those who give up the ghost, bury their heads in the sand and ride roughshod over the zeugmatists with smiling eyes and hearts. ❋ Unknown (2008)

And what of hypallage, or ` transferred epithet '? ❋ Unknown (1985)

Some make fdver of drofs an hypallage for drofs of Jil ' ❋ Dimock, Henry, D. 1810 (1791)

_aequore iusso_ ', where _iusso_ stands by hypallage for _iussi_. ❋ 43 BC-18? Ovid (N/A)

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