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Originally appearing in Volume V14, Page 198 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HYPALLAGE (Gr. Ur aX)tceyi, interchange or
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exchange)  , a rhetorical figure, in which the proper relation between two words according to the rules of syntax are inverted . The stock instance is that in
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Virgil, Aen. iii . 61, where dare classibus austros, to give winds to the
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fleet, is put for dare classes austris, to give the fleet to the winds . The
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term is also loosely applied to figures of speech properly known as "
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metonymy " and, generally, to any striking turn of expression .

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