Hypallage (hy-pal’-la-ge): Shifting the application of words. Mixing the order of which words should correspond with which others. Also, sometimes, a synonym for metonymy (see Quintilian).
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
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