Hypallage
[hi-pal-uh-jee, hahy-] /hɪˈpæl ə dʒi, haɪ-/
noun, Rhetoric.
1.
the reversal of the expected syntactic relation between two words, as in “her beauty’s face” for “her face’s beauty.”.
/haɪˈpæləˌdʒiː/
noun
1.
(rhetoric) a figure of speech in which the natural relations of two words in a statement are interchanged, as in the fire spread the wind
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