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hypallage

Meaning of "hypallage" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD HYPALLAGE

Via Late Latin from Greek hupallagē interchange, from hypo- + allassein to exchange.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF HYPALLAGE

haɪˈpæləˌdʒiː


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPALLAGE

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypallage is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPALLAGE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Hypallage

Hypallage or transferred epithet is a literary device that can be described as an abnormal, unexpected change of two segments in a sentence.

Definition of hypallage in the English dictionary

The definition of hypallage in the dictionary is a figure of speech in which the natural relations of two words in a statement are interchanged, as in the fire spread the wind.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPALLAGE

agee · algae · apage · apogee · bungee · dirige · Fiji · gee · gee-gee · Himeji · koji · Meiji · Panaji · perigee · refugee · SPG · squeegee · T&G · USCG · zero-G

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPALLAGE

hypabyssal · hypabyssally · hypaesthesia · hypaesthesic · hypaethral · hypaethron · hypalgesia · hypalgesic · hypalgia · hypallactic · hypanthia · hypanthial · hypanthium · hypate · Hypatia · hype · hype cycle · hype-carbonated · hyped up · hyper

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPALLAGE

bricolage · collage · fishing village · global village · Greenwich Village · grillage · holiday village · maquillage · millage · no-tillage · outlet village · pillage · pupillage · shopping village · spillage · stillage · tillage · tollage · treillage · ullage · village

Synonyms and antonyms of hypallage in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypallage» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPALLAGE

Find out the translation of hypallage to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of hypallage from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypallage» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

移花接木
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

hipálage
570 millions of speakers
en

English

hypallage
510 millions of speakers
hi

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hypallage
380 millions of speakers
ar

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hypallage
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

hypallage
278 millions of speakers
pt

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hypallage
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

বাক্যালঙ্কারবিশেষ
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

hypallage
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Hypallage
190 millions of speakers
de

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hypallage
180 millions of speakers
ja

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hypallage
130 millions of speakers
ko

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hypallage
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Hypokage
85 millions of speakers
vi

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hypallage
80 millions of speakers
ta

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hypallage
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

संक्षेप
75 millions of speakers
tr

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hypallage
70 millions of speakers
it

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hypallage
65 millions of speakers
pl

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hypallage
50 millions of speakers
uk

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hypallage
40 millions of speakers
ro

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hypallage
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

hypallage
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hypallage
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypallage
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypallage
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypallage

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPALLAGE»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypallage

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPALLAGE»

Discover the use of hypallage in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypallage and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Dictionary of Literary Devices: Gradus, A-Z
Hypallage R3: Humour works well when foregrounding naivete or obvious blunders*. Ex [After a long and suggestive conversation concerning a wife's sexual preferences, the apparently suave questioner asks desperately]: 'You've, er, er, ...
Bernard Marie Dupriez, Albert W. Halsall, 1991
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The House of My Sojourn: Rhetoric, Women, and the Question ...
Hypallage (figure 2.4) clarifies movement after women have been granted access in the house of rhetoric.46 It marks an upward progression in at least two ways. Women are recognized and this permits the operations in the house to pause ...
Jane S. Sutton, 2010
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Lexis in Contrast: Corpus-based Approaches
Hypallage 2.1 Figure of speech and syntactic shift Hypallage is denned as an " interchange in syntactic relationship between two terms" ( Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, e.g. You are lost to joy for Joy is lost to you) or as "the transposition of the ...
Bengt Altenberg, Sylviane Granger, 2002
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Musica Poetica: Musical-Rhetorical Figures in German Baroque ...
36) Hypallage vnaXXa.-:/f\ est quoties oratio converso rerum ordine profertur. Latine Submutatio sive subalternatio. Peacham (Garden of Eloquence F3V, Gir) Anastrophe, a preposterous order, or a backward setting of wordes. Hypallage ...
Dietrich Bartel
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Encyclopedia of Modern Greek Literature
HYPALLAGE 183 Further Reading Kelly, L. G. The True Interpreter: A History of Translation Theory and Practice in the West. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979. Makdisi, George. The Rise of Humanism in Classical Islam and the Christian West ...
Bruce Merry, 2004
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Arabic Rhetoric: A Pragmatic Analysis
5.4.2.2.2 HYPALLAGE In Arabic rhetoric, hypallage is referred to as al-majmz al- mursal which is a form of linguistic allegory. Unlike metaphor, in hypallage, the semantic relationship between the lexical item that is employed in its non-intrinsic  ...
Hussein Abdul-Raof, 2006
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Screening Early Modern Drama: Beyond Shakespeare
of 'figures Auricular working by disorder', hypallage, as a 'very prety' figure that works 'by exchange', can operate a switch between terms that are equal, creating no visible disorder. The distinction, then, allows me to pinpoint both the ...
Pascale Aebischer, 2013
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Fascist Virilities: Rhetoric, Ideology, and Social Fantasy ...
Gerard Genette begins his essay on "Metonymie chez Proust" with examples of hypallage but soon moves to a discussion of diegetic metaphors.“ But hypallage is not a diegetic metaphor: thorny envy and steep desperation are not metaphors  ...
Barbara Spackman, 1996
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Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays
Dream,” includes an extended discussion of hypallage in its study of the play's language. Unlike earlier rhetorical analyses of Dream designed to establish chronology or locate themes, Desmet's more broadly contextualized inquiry proposes ...
Dorothea Kehler, 2012
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Hectic, Hippic and Hygienic: Adjectives in Victorian ...
In traditional rhetorical analysis, this special use of attributive adjectives is commonly known as hypallage (from Greek for 'clandestine exchange') — besides various other names such as 'hypallage adjectivi', 'epithet transfer', ' transferred ...
Chris Kunze, 2009

4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPALLAGE»

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Stéphane De Groodt, à l'assaut du cinéma
Hypallage, anacoluthe, paronomase, litote, zeugma… Autant de figures de style que maîtrise Stéphane De Groodt sans véritablement " les ... «lalibre.be, May 15»
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Paraphernalia: The Curious Lives of Magical Things, By Steven …
Big Stuff is like Dylan Thomas's famous hypallage of the man "with a blunderbuss bourbon, being smoked by a large cigar." Small stuff is ... «The Independent, Jul 11»
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How to: archive and back up photos
... nonskeds viz asymptomatically copolymerized yarest roundridge manacling hypallage sizzled capella conttinua phacoglaucoma amphicome ... «What Digital Camera, Sep 10»
4
The NMC Songbook
... the mezzo-soprano Loré Lixenberg), Chris Dench makes creative and giddy use of text from Tristram Shandy in An Hypallage, whilst Edward ... «Musical Criticism, Mar 09»
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