Home                   
Crossword Solver
Glossary HQ
Links for Word Lovers
Word of the Week
Help                      
Copyrights           
Privacy                 
Webmasters
Link to Us
Contact Us           
Bookstore            
 

 
 
Complete Definition of "hypallage"

English

Noun
en-noun

  1. A literary device that is the reversal of the syntactic relation of two words, e.g. "her beauty's face" or I can't knock the smirk off his stupid face (because the thing that is referred to being stupid is "him", and not "his face").

See also
pedialite

Category:Rhetoric

de:hypallage
fr:hypallage
io:hypallage
ru:hypallage
vi:hypallage
zh:hypallage

Revision and Credits for"hypallage"
Dictionary content provided from Wiktionary.org under the
GNU Free Documentation License
 
 

 Find:
  Words Starting With:
  Words Ending With:
  Words Containing:
  Words That Match:
 
 Translate Into:
   Dutch   French   German
   Italian   Spanish
    Show results per page.
Browse the Dictionary
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

   
Allwords Copyright 1998-2024 All rights reserved.