hypallage

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: hy=pal=la=ge

CIDE DICTIONARY

hypallage, n. [L., fr. Gr. , prop., interchange, exchange, fr, to interchange; under + to change.].

 A figure consisting of a transference of attributes from their proper subjects to others. 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.  [1913 Webster]
"The hypallage, of which Virgil is fonder than any other writer, is much the gravest fault in language."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

hypallage, n. Rhet. the transposition of the natural relations of two elements in a proposition (e.g. Melissa shook her doubtful curls).

Etymology

LL f. Gk hupallage (as HYPO-, allasso exchange)

ROGET THESAURUS

hypallage

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.